Surely the blood of your souls will I require; at the hand of every living thing will I require it, and at the hand of man. At the hand of every man's brother I will require the soul of man.

Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made man.

Moreover you shall take no ransom for the soul of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall be executed to death.

Thus you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood pollutes the land. And no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who sheds it.

And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

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

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.