He did what was right in the Lord’s sight but not wholeheartedly.(A)

As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp,[a] he executed his servants who had killed his father the king. However, he did not put their children to death, because—as it is written in the Law, in the book of Moses,(B) 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.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 25:3 LXX, Syr; MT reads was strong on him; 1Kg 14:4

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