2 Chronicles 25:3
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
2 Chronicles 25:3 in other translations
| BSB | As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king. |
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| WEB | Now when the kingdom was established to him, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king. |
| ASV | Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established unto him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father. |
| YLT | And it cometh to pass, when the kingdom hath been strong upon him, that he slayeth his servants, those smiting the king his father, |
| DARBY | And it came to pass when the kingdom was established unto him, that he killed his servants who had smitten the king his father. |
| BBE | Now when he became strong in the kingdom, he put to death those men who had taken the life of the king his father. |
| Webster | Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father. |
What does 2 Chronicles 25:3 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Chronicles 25:1-13
Amaziah was no enemy to religion, but cool and indifferent friend. Many do what is good, but not with a perfect heart. Rashness makes work for repentance. But Amaziah's obedience to the command of God was to his honour. A firm belief of God's all-sufficiency to bear us out in our duty, and to make up all the loss and damage we sustain in his service, will make his yoke very easy, and his burden very light. When we…
2 Chronicles 25:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 25:3
- 2 Chronicles 24:25-26
And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) 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. And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.
- 2 Kings 14:5-22
And 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. But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the Lord 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 be put to death for his own sin. He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day. Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face. …
- Numbers 35:31-33
Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
- Genesis 9:5-6
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
- Exodus 21:14
But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ki 14:5-22
established to him. Heb. confirmed upon him. he slew.
24:25,26; Ge 9:5,6; Ex 21:14; Nu 35:31-33No doubt those wicked men, Jozachar and Jehozabad, who murdered his father, had considerable influence; and therefore he found it dangerous to bring them to justice, till he was assured of the loyalty of his other officers: when this was clear, he called them to an account, and justly put them to death for treason and murder; for, if even these conspirators against Joash intended to avenge upon him the death of Zechariah, they acted without a commission from that God "to whom vengeance belongeth."
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Context
- 2 Chronicles 25:2
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.
- 2 Chronicles 25:3
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
- 2 Chronicles 25:4
But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the Lord 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.
2 Chronicles 25:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y luego que fué confirmado en el reino, mató á sus siervos que habían muerto al rey su padre; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et il arriva que, quand la royauté fut affermie entre ses mains, il fit mourir ses serviteurs qui avaient frappé le roi son père. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und es geschah, als das Königtum bei ihm erstarkt war, da tötete er seine Knechte, die den König, seinen Vater, erschlagen hatten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Cumque roboratum sibi videret imperium, jugulavit servos qui occiderant regem patrem suum, |