2 Kings 14:3 BBE

¹  In the second year of Joash, son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah, the son of Joash, became king of Judah.

²  He was twenty-five years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.

³  He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like David his father; he did as Joash his father had done.

⁴  But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

⁵  Now when he became strong in the kingdom, straight away he put to death those servants who had taken the life of the king his father;