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Amaziah did what the Lord wanted him to do, but not with all his heart. He became a strong king and killed the officials who had killed his father the king. But Amaziah obeyed the law written in the Book of Moses and did not kill the official’s children. The Lord commanded, “Parents must not be put to death for something their children did, and children must not be put to death for something their parents did. People should be put to death only for what they themselves did.”[a]

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  1. 2 Chronicles 25:4 Parents … did See Deut. 24:16.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not wholeheartedly.(A) After the kingdom was firmly in his control, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king. Yet 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)

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  1. 2 Chronicles 25:4 Deut. 24:16