New Revised Standard Version
As soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand he killed his servants who had murdered his father the king.

Contemporary English Version
For example, as soon as he had control of Judah, he arrested and killed the officers who had murdered his father.

New American Bible
When he had the kingdom firmly in hand, he struck down the officials who had struck down the king, his father.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he saw himself strengthened in his kingdom, he put to death the servants that had slain the king his father.

And when he saw himself strengthened in his kingdom, he put to death the servants that had slain the king his father.

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3166 B.C.

838
Now it came

2 Kings 14:5 And when he had possession of the kingdom, he put his servants to death that had slain the king, his father.

2 Chronicles 24:25,26 And departing they left him in great diseases: and his servants rose up against him, for revenge of the blood of the son of Joiada the priest, and they slew him in his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings. . . .

Genesis 9:5,6 For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man. . . .

Exodus 21:14 If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose, and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar that he may die.

Numbers 35:31-33 You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he shall die forthwith. . . .