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As soon as the kingdom was firmly in Amaziah’s hand, he executed his servants who had killed his father the king.(A) But he did not put the sons of the murderers to death, in compliance with what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, in which the Lord commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, nor shall the sons be put to death for the fathers; but each shall be put to death [only] for his own sin.”(B)

Amaziah killed 10,000 [men] of Edom in the Valley of Salt, and took [a]Sela (rock) by war, and renamed it Joktheel, to this day.

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  1. 2 Kings 14:7 Gr Petra.

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