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2 Kings 14:5
“It happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father:”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 14
He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done.
However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
It happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father:
but the children of the murderers he didn't put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh 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 die for his own sin.
He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.
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The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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