2 Chronicles 33:25
But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.
Genesis 9:5-6
For your lifeblood I will most certainly require an accounting; from every animal [that kills a person] I will require it. And from man, from every man’s brother [that is, anyone who murders] I will require the life of man.
Numbers 35:31
Moreover, you shall not accept a ransom [in exchange] for the life of a murderer guilty and sentenced to death; but he shall certainly be put to death.
Numbers 35:33
So you shall not pollute and defile the land in which you live; for [the shedding of innocent] blood pollutes and defiles the land. No atonement (expiation) can be made for the land for the [innocent] blood shed in it, except by the blood (execution) of him who shed it.
2 Chronicles 26:1
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
2 Chronicles 34:1
Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:1
Then the people of the land took Joahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.