2 Chronicles 25:1-4
New English Translation
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]
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- 2 Chronicles 25:1 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
- 2 Chronicles 25:2 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord.”
- 2 Chronicles 25:2 tn Heb “a complete heart.”
- 2 Chronicles 25:3 tn Heb “when the kingdom was secure upon him.”
- 2 Chronicles 25:4 tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which the Lord commanded, saying.”
- 2 Chronicles 25:4 tn Heb “on account of sons.”
- 2 Chronicles 25:4 tn Heb “on account of fathers.”
- 2 Chronicles 25:4 sn This law is recorded in Deut 24:16.
2 Chronicles 25:1-4
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Reign of Amaziah
25 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.(A) 2 He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, yet not with a true heart.(B) 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.”(C)
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