⁵ And as soon as the royal power was ^(A)firmly in his hand, he struck down his servants ^(B)who had struck down the king his father.

³ And as soon as the royal power was firmly his, he killed his servants who had struck down the king his father. ⁴ But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, ^(A)“Fathers shall not die because of their children, nor children die because of their fathers, but each one shall die for his own sin.”

^20 (A)His servants arose and made a conspiracy ^(B)and struck down Joash in the house of ^(C)Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla. ²¹ It was ^(D)Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of ^(E)Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so that he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, ^(F)and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

³³ You shall not ^(A)pollute the land in which you live, for blood ^(B)pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except ^(C)by the blood of the one who shed it.

^12 (A)“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death. ^13 (B)But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then ^(C)I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. ¹⁴ But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, ^(D)you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.