2
Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name Joadim of Jerusalem.
3
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not as David his father: he did according to all things that his father Joas did.
4
Only he removed not the high places: as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.
5
And it came to pass when the kingdom was established in his hand, that he slew his servants that had slain the king his father.
6
But he slew not the sons of those that had slain him; according as it is written in the book of the laws of Moses, as the Lord gave commandment, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, and the children shall not be put to death for the fathers; but every one shall die for his own sins.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.