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2 Chronicles 25:3-5
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2 Chronicles 25:3-5
Contemporary English Version
3 For example, as soon as he had control of Judah, he arrested and killed the officers who had murdered his father. 4 (A) But the children of those officers were not killed; the Lord had commanded in the Law of Moses that only the people who sinned were to be punished.[a]
Edom Is Defeated
(2 Kings 14.7)
5 Amaziah sent a message to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin and called together all the men who were 20 years old and older. Three hundred thousand men went to Jerusalem, all of them ready for battle and able to fight with spears and shields. Amaziah grouped these soldiers according to their clans and put them under the command of his army officers.
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- 25.4 the Lord had commanded … punished: See Deuteronomy 24.16.
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