2Ki 14:1-6 | NASB1995 | STEP | In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel , Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah became king .

2 Kings 14:1-6

1 ^aIn the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel, ^bAmaziah the son of Joash king of Judah became king. 2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem. 3 He did right in the sight of the Lord, yet not like David his father; he did according to all that Joash his father had done. 4 Only ^cthe high places were not taken away; ^dthe people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. 5 Now it came about, as soon as the kingdom was firmly in his hand, that he ^{▼▼ Lit smote
,} ^fkilled his servants who had slain the king his father. 6 But the sons of the ^{▼▼ Lit smiters}slayers he did not put to death, according to what is written in the book of the Law of Moses, as the Lord commanded, saying, ^h“The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, nor the sons be put to death for the fathers; but ⁱeach shall be put to death for his own sin.”