¹ In the second year of Joash, son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah, the son of Joash, became king of Judah.

¹⁰ In the thirty-seventh year of the rule of Joash, king of Judah, Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for sixteen years.

¹ Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

² He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord.

³ Now when he became strong in the kingdom, he put to death those men who had taken the life of the king his father.

⁴ But he did not put their children to death, for he kept the orders of the Lord recorded in the book of the law of Moses, saying, The fathers are not to be put to death for their children or the children for their fathers, but a man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done.

¹⁵ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash, and his power, and how he went to war with Amaziah, king of Judah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

¹² Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,