2 Kings 14:5

English Standard Version 2016

And as soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand, he struck down his servants who had struck down the king his father.

Cross References

Numbers 35:33

You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

Genesis 9:6

“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

2 Kings 15:19

Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold on the royal power.

2 Kings 21:24

But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.