Sinai2 Kings 14:5
American Standard Version
And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he slew his servants who had slain the king his father:
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2 Kings 14:5 in other translations
As soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, he killed his servants who had slain the king his father,
2 Kings 14:5 in context
- 3And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done.
- 4Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
- 5And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he slew his servants who had slain the king his father:
- 6but the children of the murderers he put not to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Jehovah commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.
- 7He slew of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called the name of it Joktheel, unto this day.