Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.(A)

As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah killed his servants who had murdered his father the king.(B) However, he did not put the children of the murderers to death, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses where the Lord commanded, “Fathers must not be put to death because of children, and children must not be put to death because of fathers; instead, each one will be put to death for his own sin.”(C)

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