2 Chronicles 25:2-4

EasyEnglish Bible

²He did things that the Lord said were good. But he was not completely faithful.

³Amaziah made himself strong to rule his kingdom with authority. Then he killed the officers who had murdered his father, King Joash. ⁴But he did not punish their sons with death. He obeyed the Lord's command that was written in the Book of the Law of Moses. The command says, ‘Do not punish fathers with death when their sons do bad things. Do not punish children with death when their fathers do bad things. Each person must die only because of his own sins.’^[a]

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25:4 See Deuteronomy 24:16.

2 Chronicles 25:2-4

New International Version

²He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not wholeheartedly.^(A) ³After the kingdom was firmly in his control, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king. ⁴Yet he did not put their children to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses,^(B) where the Lord commanded: “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children be put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”^[a]^(C)