Amaziah Succeeds Joash in Judah

25 ^(A)Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. ² He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, ^(B)only not wholeheartedly. ³ Now ^(C)it came about, as soon as the kingdom was ^[a]firmly in his grasp, that he killed his servants who had killed his father the king. ⁴ However, he did not put their children to death, but did as it is written in the Law in the Book of Moses, which the Lord commanded, saying, “^(D)Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, nor sons be put to death for fathers; but each shall be put to death for his own sin.”