1. Amatsyahu was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim. And the name of his mother was Yehoaddan of Yerushalayim.
2. And he did what was right in the eyes of יהוה, but not with a perfect heart.
3. And it came to be, upon his strong control of the reign, that he slew his servants who had smitten his father the sovereign.
4. But he did not put their children to death, but did as it is written in the Torah in the Book of Mosheh, where יהוה commanded, saying, “Fathers are not put to death for their children, and children are not put to death for their fathers, but each one has to die for his own sin.”