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And when he had gotten the realm, he smote his servants, that had killed the king, his father;

but he killed not the sons of them that had slain the king/that had slain his father, by that that is written in the book of the law of Moses, as the Lord commanded to Moses, and said, [The] Fathers shall not die for the sons, neither the sons for the fathers, but each man shall die in his own sin (but each man shall die for his own sin).

He smote Edom in the valley of (the) makings of salt, he smote ten thousand (men), and took the Stone in battle (and took Selah in battle); and he called the name thereof Joktheel[a], (which it is still called) unto this present day.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 14:7 That is, ‘(the) soreness of teeth’, for they that were slain there gnashed with (their) teeth, for the horror and sorrow of death.