2 Kings 14:1-6
1599 Geneva Bible
14 2 Amaziah the king of Judah putteth to death them that slew his father, 7 and after smiteth Edom. 15 Joash dieth, and Jeroboam his son succeedeth him. 29 And after him reigneth Zechariah.
1 The second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, reigned (A)Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
2 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem, and his mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
3 And he did [a]uprightly in the sight of the Lord, yet not like David his father, but did according to all that Joash his father had done.
4 Notwithstanding the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people did sacrifice, and burnt incense in the high places.
5 ¶ And when the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, he slew his servants which had (B)killed the king his father.
6 But the children of those that did slay him, he [b]slew not, according unto that which is written in the book of the Law of Moses, wherein the Lord commanded, saying, (C)The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children put to death for the fathers: but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
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- 2 Kings 14:3 In the beginning of his reign he seemed to have an outward show of godliness, but afterward he became an idolater and worshipped the idols of the Idumeans.
- 2 Kings 14:6 Because they neither consented nor were partakers with their fathers in that act.
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