2 Chronicles 25:3

New English Translation

When he had secured control of the kingdom, he executed the servants who had assassinated his father.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 21:4

Jehoram took control of his father’s kingdom and became powerful. Then he killed all his brothers, as well as some of the officials of Israel.

2 Chronicles 25:4

However, he did not execute their sons. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, “Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do, and sons must not be executed for what their fathers do. A man must be executed only for his own sin.”

2 Chronicles 33:25

The people of the land executed all who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.

Exodus 21:14

But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.