2 Chronicles 25:3

2 Chronicles 25:3 in other translations

2 Chronicles 25:3 in context

1. 1Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem.
2. 2And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, but not with a perfect heart.
3. 3Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established unto him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
4. 4But he put not their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as Jehovah commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.
5. 5Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers’ houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.