1. Amaziah twenty and five years old he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

2. And he did right in the sight of יְהוָ֥ה, but not with a perfect heart.

3. Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.

4. But he slew not their children, but as written in the law in the book of Moses, where יְהוָ֥ה commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.