1. In the second year of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, became king.
2. He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddin, from Jerusalem.
3. He did what was right in the Lord’s eyes, though not like David his father. He did just as his father Joash had done,
4. though the high places did not disappear, and the people continued to sacrifice and to burn incense on the high places.