2 Chronicles 25:3
After he had made sure his rule was secure, he executed the officers who had murdered his father the king.
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2He did what was right in the Lord's sight but not with complete commitment.
Cross References
Exodus 21:14But if someone deliberately plans and purposely kills another, you must take them away from my altar and execute them.
2 Kings 14:5Once he was secure on the throne he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.
2 Chronicles 24:25When the Arameans departed, they left Joash badly wounded. But then his own officers plotted against him for murdering the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him in his bed. He was buried in the City of David, but not in the cemetery of the kings.
2 Chronicles 33:25But the people of the land killed everyone who had plotted against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king.
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 →