⁵ After the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, he executed^(A) the officials^(B) who had murdered his father the king. ⁶ 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)

⁷ 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.