"Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his fat…" — 2 Chronicles 25:3

2 Chronicles 25:3 · KJV

“Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father. {established...: Heb. confirmed upon him}”

— 2 Chronicles 25:3

Verse 2

And he did {that which was} right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.

Verse 4

But he slew not their children, but {did} as {it is} written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

2 Chronicles 25 — Context

Amaziah {was} twenty and five years old {when} he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name {was} Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

And he did {that which was} right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.

Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father. {established...: Heb. confirmed upon him}

Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of {their} fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice {men, able} to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

Cross References

2 Kings 14:5-22

And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.

2 Chronicles 24:25-26

And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

Genesis 9:5-6

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

Numbers 35:31-33

Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which {is} guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. {guilty...: Heb. faulty to die}

Exodus 21:14

But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.