Old Testament · VERSE 4

2 Chronicles 25:4

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But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

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2 Chronicles 25:2

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.

2 Chronicles 25:3

Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.

2 Chronicles 25:4SELECTED VERSE

But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

2 Chronicles 25:5

Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

2 Chronicles 25:6

He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.

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