2 Kings 14:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

As soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand, he killed his servants who had murdered his father the king.

Cross References

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person’s blood be shed, for in his own image God made humans.

2 Kings 15:19

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

2 Kings 21:24

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

Numbers 35:33

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