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The places where gods were worshiped were not removed, so the people still sacrificed and burned incense there.

As soon as Amaziah took control of the kingdom, he executed the officers who had murdered his father the king. But he did not put to death the children of the murderers because of the rule written in the Book of the Teachings of Moses. The Lord had commanded: “Parents must not be put to death when their children do wrong, and children must not be put to death when their parents do wrong. Each must die for his own sins.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 14:6 “Parents . . . sins.” See Deuteronomy 24:16.

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