2. He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name was Yeho‛addin of Yerushalayim.
3. And he did what was right in the eyes of יהוה, but not like his father Dawiḏ. He did according to all his father Yo’ash did.
4. However, the high places were not taken away. The people still slaughtered and burned incense on the high places.
5. And it came to be, as soon as the reign was strong in his hand, that he smote his servants who had smitten his father the sovereign.