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But he did not put to death their children because, as it is written in the Law in the Book of Moses, as the Lord commanded, “You will not put to death the fathers for their children’s actions nor the children will you put to death for their fathers’ actions, for every man will be put to death for his own sin.”

Slaughter of the Edomites

Then Amaziah assembled Judah and set over them according to the house of the fathers commanders of thousands and hundreds in all Judah and Benjamin, and he appointed men who were twenty years old and above. And they found three hundred thousand choice men fit for war and able to use a long spear and large shield. And he hired out from Israel one hundred thousand mighty men of war for one hundred talents[a] of silver.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 25:6 About 3¾ tons, or 3.4 metric tons; also in v. 9.