Now it came about, as soon as the kingdom was firmly in his hand, that he [a](A)killed his servants who had [b]killed the king, his father. But he did not put the sons of [c]the murderers to death, in [d]obedience to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, as the Lord commanded, saying, “(B)The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, nor the sons be put to death for the fathers; but (C)each shall be put to death for his own sin.”

He [e]killed ten thousand of the Edomites in (D)the Valley of Salt, and took (E)Sela by war, and named it (F)Joktheel, as it is to this day.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 14:5 Lit struck
  2. 2 Kings 14:5 Lit struck
  3. 2 Kings 14:6 Lit those who struck
  4. 2 Kings 14:6 Lit accordance with what
  5. 2 Kings 14:7 Lit struck

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