2 Chronicles 25:4

4 But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the law, in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, or the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin."

2 Chronicles 25:4 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 25:4

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 25:1)

2 Chronicles 25:4 In-Context

2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not with a blameless heart.

3 And as soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand he killed his servants who had slain the king his father.

4 But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the law, in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, or the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin."

5 Then Amazi'ah assembled the men of Judah, and set them by fathers' houses under commanders of thousands and of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He mustered those twenty years old and upward, and found that they were three hundred thousand picked men, fit for war, able to handle spear and shield.

6 He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.