2 Chronicles 25:4-6

Christian Standard Bible

⁴ However, he did not put their children to death, because—as it is written in the Law, in the book of Moses,^(A) where the Lord commanded—“Fathers are not to die because of children, and children are not to die because of fathers, but each one will die for his own sin.”^(B)

Amaziah’s Campaign against Edom

⁵ Then Amaziah gathered Judah and assembled them according to ancestral families,^[a] according to commanders of thousands, and according to commanders of hundreds. He numbered those twenty years old or more^(C) for all Judah and Benjamin. He found there to be three hundred thousand fit young men who could serve in the army, bearing spear and shield.^{(D) 6} Then for 7,500 pounds^[b] of silver he hired one hundred thousand valiant warriors from Israel.