For your lifeblood shall I require at the hand of all wild beasts, and I shall require a man's life at the hand of his fellow man.

He that sheds man's blood, instead of that blood shall his own be shed, for in the image of God I made man.

And you shall not accept ransoms for life from a murderer who is worthy of death, for he shall be surely put to death.

So shall you not pollute with murder the land in which you dwell; for this blood pollutes the land, and the land shall not be purged from the blood shed upon it, but by the blood of him that shed it.

Then all the people of the land took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and they made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king over Jerusalem in the place of his father.

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.