1 Amaziah was 25 years old when he became king, and he ruled 29 years from Jerusalem, the hometown of his mother Jehoaddin.
2 Even though Amaziah obeyed the Lord by doing right, he refused to be completely faithful.
3 For example, as soon as he had control of Judah, he arrested and killed the officers who had murdered his father.
4 But the children of those officers were not killed; the Lord had commanded in the Law of Moses that only the people who sinned were to be punished.