2 Kings 14:1-6

Modern English Version

Amaziah, King of Judah^(A)

14 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, became king. ² He was twenty-five years old when he became king and reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan from Jerusalem. ³ He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, only not like David his father. He did everything that Joash his father did. ⁴ But he did not remove the high places. Still the people sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.

⁵ As soon as he seized the kingdom, he killed his servants who had killed his father, the king. ⁶ But he did not kill the children of the murderers, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, in which the Lord commanded, “Fathers must not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers. Rather, a man should be put to death for his own sin.”