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2 Chronicles 25:3

2 Chronicles chapter 25 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.2And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, but not with a perfect heart.

v.3This passage

v.4But he put not their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as Jehovah 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.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Exodus 21:14

    And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

  • 2 Kings 14:5

    And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he slew his servants who had slain the king his father:

  • Numbers 35:31

    Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

  • 2 Chronicles 24:25

    And when they were departed from him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

  • Genesis 9:5

    And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, will I require the life of man.