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2 Chronicles 25:3

It came about that as soon as his rule was well established, he killed the servants who had murdered his father, the king.

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In The King James Version

Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.

In Context

2He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, but not with a whole heart.

4But he did not put the children of the murderers to death, but acted according to what was written in the law, in the Book of Moses, as Yahweh had commanded, “The fathers must not die for the children, nor must the children die for the fathers. Instead, every person must die for his own sin.”

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Cross References

Exodus 21:14If a man willfully attacks his neighbor and kills him according to a cunning plan, then you must take him, even if he is at God's altar, so that he may die.

2 Kings 14:5It came about that as soon as his rule was well established, he killed the servants who had murdered his father, the king.

2 Chronicles 24:25By the time that the Arameans had gone, Joash had been severely wounded. His own servants plotted against him because of the murder of the sons of Jehoiada, the priest. They killed him in his bed, and he died; they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

2 Chronicles 33:25But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made Josiah, his son, king in his place.

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 →

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