2 Chronicles 33:25

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But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

Surely I will require

your lifeblood;

from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man.

Moreover, you shall not take ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.

And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

Then the people of the land took

Joahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem.

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

The servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his own house.