Bible verse
As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.
2 Chronicles 25:3 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Chronicles 25.
1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.
2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.
3 As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.
4 Yet he did not put their sons to death, but acted according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”
5 Then Amaziah gathered the people of Judah and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and of hundreds. And he numbered those twenty years of age or older throughout Judah and Benjamin and found 300,000 chosen men able to serve in the army, bearing the spear and shield.
6 He also hired 100,000 mighty warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
7 But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—not with any of the Ephraimites.
KJV
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
ASV
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established unto him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
ERV
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established unto him, that he slew his servants which had killed the king his father.
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