⁵ As soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand, he killed his servants who had murdered his father the king.^(A)

³ As soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand, he killed his servants who had murdered his father the king. 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, “The parents shall not be put to death for the children or the children be put to death for the parents, but all shall be put to death for their own sins.”^(A)

²⁰ His servants arose, devised a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.^{(A) 21} It was Jozacar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so that he died. He was buried with his ancestors in the city of David; then his son Amaziah succeeded him.^(B)

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

The Law concerning Violence

¹² “Whoever strikes a person mortally shall be put to death.^{(A) 13} If it was not premeditated but came about by an act of God, then I will appoint for you a place to which the killer may flee.^{(B) 14} But if someone willfully attacks and kills another by treachery, you shall take the killer from my altar for execution.^(C)