2 Kings 14:1-6

Common English Bible

Amaziah rules Judah

14 Amaziah, the son of Judah’s King Jehoash,^[a] became king in the second year of Israel’s King Joash, who was Jehoahaz’s son. ² Amaziah was 25 years old when he became king, and he ruled for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddin; she was from Jerusalem. ³ He did what was right in the Lord’s eyes, but not as well as his ancestor King David. He did everything his father Jehoash did. ⁴ However, the shrines weren’t removed. People kept sacrificing and burning incense at them. ⁵ Once he had secured control over his kingdom, he executed the officials who had assassinated his father the king. ⁶ However, he didn’t kill the children of the murderers, because of what is written in the Instruction scroll from Moses, where the Lord commanded, Parents shouldn’t be executed because of what their children have done; neither should children be executed because of what their parents have done. Each person should be executed for their own guilty acts.^[b]