1In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel began Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah to reign.
2He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother`s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
3He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done.
4However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
5It happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father:
6but the children of the murderers he didn`t put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.
7He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called the name of it Joktheel, to this day.
