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2 Chronicles 25:3

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.

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, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

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BSB
As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.
KJV
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
WEB
Now when the kingdom was established to him, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king.
ASV
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established unto him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
DARBY
And it came to pass when the kingdom was established unto him, that he killed his servants who had smitten the king his father.
BLB
And it came to pass, when the kingdom was strong for him, that he killed his servants who had struck his father the king.
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 fast i hans hånd, henrettet han sine tjenere som hadde drept 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.

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  • 2 Chronicles 24:25–26

    And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

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  • 2 Kings 14:5–22

    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.

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  • Numbers 35:31–33

    Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.

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  • Genesis 9:5–6

    And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.

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  • Exodus 21:14

    But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

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