If anyone takes human life, he will be punished. I will punish with death any animal that takes a human life.

Human beings were made like God, so whoever murders one of them will be killed by someone else.

Murderers must be put to death. They cannot escape this penalty by the payment of money.

If you did this, you would defile the land where you are living. Murder defiles the land, and except by the death of the murderer there is no way to perform the ritual of purification for the land where someone has been murdered.

All the people of Judah chose Amaziah's sixteen-year-old son Uzziah to succeed his father as king.

The people of Judah chose Josiah's son Joahaz and anointed him king in Jerusalem.

Josiah was eight years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for thirty-one years.