But he didn’t put their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as YHWH commanded, saying, “The fathers will not die for the children, neither will the children die for the fathers. But every man must die for his own sin.”
Now when Jehoram had risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.