New Revised Standard Version
But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made his son Josiah king to succeed him.

Contemporary English Version
But the people of Judah killed the murderers of Amon and made his son Josiah king.

New American Bible
but the people of the land then slew all who had plotted against King Amon, and the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his stead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the rest of the multitude of the people slew them that had killed Amon, and made Josias his son king in his stead.

But the rest of the multitude of the people slew them that had killed Amon, and made Josias his son king in his stead.

slew

Genesis 9:5,6 For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man. . . .

Numbers 35:31,33 You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he shall die forthwith. . . .

the people

2 Chronicles 26:1 And all the people of Juda took his son Ozias, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of Amasias his father.

2 Chronicles 36:1 Then the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of his father in Jerusalem.

Josiah

2 Chronicles 34:1 Josias was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one and thirty years in Jerusalem.