2 Kings 14:4-6

International Children’s Bible

⁴ The places where false gods were worshiped were not removed. The people still sacrificed and burned incense there.

⁵ Amaziah took strong control of the kingdom. Then he put the officers to death who had killed his father the king. ⁶ But he did not put to death the children of the murderers. This is because of the rule written in the Book of the Teachings of Moses. The Lord had commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death when their children do wrong. And children must not be put to death when their fathers do wrong. Each person must die for his own sins.”^[a]