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2 Chronicles 25:3

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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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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

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.

KJV

Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 25

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp

on 2 Chronicles 25:3-4

Amaziah executes his father’s murderers but spares their sons. Chronicles keeps the citation Kings already carries at 2 Kings 14:5-6: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children”. The king who keeps that law here is the king who bows before the gods of Seir ten verses later.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

25 ), yet this would by no means justify their wickedness; for they were not the avengers, but presumptuously took God's work out of his hands: and therefore Amaziah did what became him in calling them to an account for it, but forbade the putting of the children to death for the parents' sin,

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The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְהִ֕יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֛רjust when

    kaasherH834 →5497 times

  • חָזְקָ֥הit was secure

    chazekahH2388 →291 times

  • הַמַּמְלָכָ֖הthe kingdom

    hamamlakhahH4467 →117 times

  • עָלָ֑יוon him

    ʾalavH5921 →5755 times

  • וַֽיַּהֲרֹג֙and he killed

    vaiyaharogH2026 →167 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • עֲבָדָ֔יוservants his

    ʾavadavH5650 →799 times

  • הַמַּכִּ֖יםwho had struck down

    hamakimH5221 →499 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַמֶּ֥לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • אָבִֽיו׃father his

    ʾavivH1 →1212 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Kings 14:5–22As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.3 works2 Chronicles 24:25–26And when the Arameans had withdrawn, they left Joash severely wounded. His own servants conspired against him for shedding the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him on his bed. So he died and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.3 worksNumbers 35:31–33You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.2 worksGenesis 9:5–6And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:2 worksExodus 21:14But if a man schemes and acts willfully against his neighbor to kill him, you must take him away from My altar to be put to death.2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 21:14

    But if a man schemes and acts willfully against his neighbor to kill him, you must take him away from My altar to be put to death.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 2:28–34

      When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah but not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the LORD and took hold of the horns of the altar.

    • Hebrews 10:26

      If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

    • 2 Peter 2:10

      Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.

    • Deuteronomy 17:12–13

      But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge…

    • Deuteronomy 19:11–13

      If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,

About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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