2 Kings 14:5
3 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David had done. He did everything as his father Joash had done.
4 Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.
6 Yet he did not put the sons of the murderers to death, but acted according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”
7 Amaziah struck down 10,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He took Sela in battle and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this very day.
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Sammenlign
- ÅB
- Så snart han hadde fått kongedømmet fast i sin hånd, slo han ihjel dem av sine tjenere som hadde slått ihjel hans far kongen.
- OTB
- Da riket var sikkert under hans kontroll, henrettet han tjenerne som hadde myrdet hans far, kongen.
- B1930
- Så snart han hadde fått kongedømmet fast i sin hånd, slo han ihjel dem av sine tjenere som hadde slått ihjel hans far kongen.
- BSB
- As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.
- KJV
- And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.
- WEB
- As soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, he killed his servants who had slain the king his father,
- ASV
- And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he slew his servants who had slain the king his father:
- DARBY
- And it came to pass when the kingdom was established in his hand, that he slew his servants who had smitten the king his father.
- BLB
- And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had struck the king, his father.
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2 Chronicles 25:3–4
As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.
Les i sammenheng2 Kings 12:20–21
And the servants of Joash rose up and formed a conspiracy and killed him at Beth-millo, on the road down to Silla.
Les i sammenhengNumbers 35:33
Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
Les i sammenhengGenesis 9:6
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
Les i sammenhengExodus 21:12–14
Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.
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