2 Kings 14:5
2 Kings chapter 14 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And 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:
KJV
King James Version · 1611And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And 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:
Context
v.4Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
v.5This passage
v.6but the children of the murderers he put not to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Jehovah commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death 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.
- Numbers 35:33
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood, it polluteth the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
- Genesis 9:6
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
- 2 Chronicles 25:3
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established unto him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
- Exodus 21:12
He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death.
- 2 Kings 12:20
And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goeth down to Silla.