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2 Chronicles 25:3
And when he saw himself strengthened in his kingdom, he put to death the servants that had slain the king his father.
2 Chronicles 25:3 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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2 Chronicles 25:3 in other translations
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.
Now when the kingdom was established to him, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king.
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In context
1 Amasias was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem, the name of his mother was Joadan of Jerusalem.
2 And he did what was good in the sight of the Lord: but yet not with a perfect heart.
3 And when he saw himself strengthened in his kingdom, he put to death the servants that had slain the king his father.
4 But he slew not their children, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall not be slain for the children, nor the children for their fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
5 Amasias therefore gathered Juda together, and appointed them by families, and captains of thousands and of hundreds in all Juda, and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upwards, and found three hundred thousand young men that could go out to battle, and could hold the spear and shield.
6 He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant men, for a hundred talents of silver.
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