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当国家在他手中稳定以后,他就把那些击杀他父王的臣仆杀了。

但他们的儿子没有处死,这是按照摩西律法书上所写,是耶和华的吩咐:“不可因儿子的罪处死父亲,也不可因父亲的罪处死儿子;各人要因自己的罪而死。” 他在盐谷击杀了一万以东人,又攻取了西拉,然后把它的名字改称为约帖,直到今日。

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After the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, he executed(A) the officials(B) who had murdered his father the king. Yet he did not put the children of the assassins to death, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Law(C) of Moses where the Lord commanded: “Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”[a](D)

He was the one who defeated ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt(E) and captured Sela(F) in battle, calling it Joktheel, the name it has to this day.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 14:6 Deut. 24:16