⁵ Now when he became strong in the kingdom, straight away he put to death those servants who had taken the life of the king his father;

⁶ Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.

¹² He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.

¹³ But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.

¹⁴ But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

³³ So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.

²⁰ And his servants made a secret design and put Joash to death at the house of Millo on the way down to Silla.

²¹ And Jozacar, the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of Shomer, his servants, came to him and put him to death; and they put him into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Amaziah his son became king in his place.

³ Now when he became strong in the kingdom, he put to death those men who had taken the life of the king his father.

⁴ But he did not put their children to death, for he kept the orders of the Lord recorded in the book of the law of Moses, saying, The fathers are not to be put to death for their children or the children for their fathers, but a man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done.