2 Kings 14:1-6

Lexham English Bible

Amaziah Reigns in Judah; Jeroboam II in Israel

14 In the second year of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah began to reign. ² He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Jehoaddin from Jerusalem. ³ He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, only not as David his ancestor;^[a] as all which Jehoash his father had done, he did. ⁴ Only the high places were not removed; the people were still sacrificing and offering incense on the high places.

⁵ It happened that when the kingdom was firmly in his hand, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king. ⁶ But the sons of the killers he did not kill, as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which Yahweh had commanded, saying, “Fathers should not be killed because of children, and children should not be killed because of fathers; but a man should die because of his own sin.”