⁵ And it cometh to pass, when the kingdom hath been strong in his hand, that he smiteth his servants, those smiting the king his father,

⁶ whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

¹² `He who smiteth a man so that he hath died, is certainly put to death;

¹³ as to him who hath not laid wait, and God hath brought to his hand, I have even set for thee a place whither he doth flee.

¹⁴ `And when a man doth presume against his neighbour to slay him with subtilty, from Mine altar thou dost take him to die.

³³ `And ye profane not the land which ye `are' in, for blood profaneth the land; as to the land, it is not pardoned for blood which is shed in it except by the blood of him who sheddeth it;

²⁰ And his servants rise, and make a conspiracy, and smite Joash in the house of Millo, that is going down to Silla:

²¹ yea, Jozachar son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad son of Shemer, his servants, have smitten him, and he dieth, and they bury him with his fathers in the city of David, and reign doth Amaziah his son, in his stead.

³ And it cometh to pass, when the kingdom hath been strong upon him, that he slayeth his servants, those smiting the king his father,

⁴ and their sons he hath not put to death, but `did' as is written in the law, in the book of Moses, whom Jehovah commanded, saying, `Fathers do not die for sons, and sons die not for fathers, but each for his own sin they die.'