2 Kings 14:1-6 ▼

1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah became king.

2 He was a son of twenty-five years in his reigning, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And the name of His mother was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

3 And he did right in the eyes of YHWH, yet not like David his father. According to all that Joash his father had done, he did.

4 However the high places were not taken away; still the people sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had struck the king, his father.

6 And the sons of those striking he did not kill, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, in which YHWH commanded, saying, “Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, and children shall not be put to death for their fathers; for but a person for his own sin shall be put to death.”