Howbeit the high places were not taken away Though he first did that which was right before God; nor did his father take them away; see ( 2 Kings 12:3 ) .
2
He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother [was] Jehoaddin from Jerusalem.
3
He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, only not as David his ancestor; as all which Jehoash his father had done, he did.
4
Only the high places were not removed; the people [were] still sacrificing and offering incense on the high places.
5
It happened that when the kingdom was firmly in his hand, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king.
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But the sons of the killers he did not kill, as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which Yahweh had commanded, saying, "Fathers should not be killed because of children, and children should not be killed because of fathers; but a man should die because of his [own] sin."
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