Throughout much of this time, he “continued to do what was upright in Jehovah’s eyes, according to all that Amaziah his father had done. ”
שנים רבות עשה ” הישר בעיני יהוה, ככל אשר עשה אמציהו אביו ” (‏ מלכים ב ’. ט ” ו: 3‏).