As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp,[a] he executed his servants who had killed his father the king. However, he did not put their children to death, because—as it is written in the Law, in the book of Moses,(A) where the Lord commanded—“Fathers are not to die because of children, and children are not to die because of fathers, but each one will die for his own sin.”(B)

Amaziah’s Campaign against Edom

Then Amaziah gathered Judah and assembled them according to ancestral families,[b] according to commanders of thousands, and according to commanders of hundreds. He numbered those twenty years old or more(C) for all Judah and Benjamin. He found there to be three hundred thousand fit young men who could serve in the army, bearing spear and shield.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 25:3 LXX, Syr; MT reads was strong on him; 1Kg 14:4
  2. 25:5 Lit house of fathers

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