Amaziah Reigns in Judah

2 Chronicles 25

¹ Amaziah _a was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. ² And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, _b but not with a loyal heart. ³ _c Now it happened, as soon as the kingdom was established for him, that he executed his servants who had murdered his father the king. ⁴ However he did not execute their children, but did as it is written in the Law in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, _d "The fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall the children be put to death for their fathers; but a person shall die for his own sin." ₁

1. Cross References
   2 Kings 14:1 - 6
   In the second year of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, became king.
   
2. Cross References
   2 Kings 14:4
   However the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
   2 Chronicles 25:14
   Now it was so, after Amaziah came from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the people of Seir, set them up to be his gods, and bowed down before them and burned incense to them.
   
3. Cross References
   2 Kings 14:5
   Now it happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he executed his servants who had murdered his father the king.
   2 Chronicles 24:25
   And when they had withdrawn from him (for they left him severely wounded), his own servants conspired against him because of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died. And they buried him in the City of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.
   
4. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 24:16
   Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; a person shall be put to death for his own sin.
   2 Kings 14:6
   But the children of the murderers he did not execute, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, in which the LORD commanded, saying, "Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; but a person shall be put to death for his own sin.
   Jeremiah 31:30
   But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
   Ezekiel 18:20
   The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.