2 Chronicles 25:3
And when he saw himself strengthened in his kingdom, he put to death the servants that had slain the king his father.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2And he did what was good in the sight of the Lord: but yet not with a perfect heart.
Cross References
Exodus 21:14If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar, that he may die.
2 Kings 14:5And when he had possession of the kingdom, he put his servants to death that had slain the king his father:
2 Chronicles 24:25And departing they left him in diseases: and his servants rose up him, for revenge of the blood of the son of Joiada the priest, and they slew him in his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
2 Chronicles 33:25But the rest of the multitude of the people slew them that had killed Amen, and made Josias his son king in his stead.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 25:2-14
Amaziah's Reign and Victories. ( b. c. 838.) 1 Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord , but not with a perfect heart. 3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father. 4 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses,… Read the whole commentary →