²⁵ But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

⁵ I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

⁶ Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.

³¹ Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

³³ So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.

¹ All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.

¹ Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

¹ Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem.