Notwithstanding the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people did sacrifice, and burnt incense in the high places.

¶ And when the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, he slew his servants which had (A)killed the king his father.

But the children of those that did slay him, he [a]slew not, according unto that which is written in the book of the Law of Moses, wherein the Lord commanded, saying, (B)The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children put to death for the fathers: but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 14:6 Because they neither consented nor were partakers with their fathers in that act.

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