Amaziah’s Reign

25 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother^[a] was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem. ² He did what the Lord approved,^[b] but not with wholehearted devotion.^[c]

³ When he had secured control of the kingdom,^[d] he executed the servants who had assassinated his father the king. ⁴ However, he did not execute their sons. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses,^[e] “Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do,^[f] and sons must not be executed for what their fathers do.^[g] A man must be executed only for his own sin.”^[h]