2 Chronicles 25:4
Yet he did not put their sons to death, but acted according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the Lord commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”
Note Deuteronomy 24:16
But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the Lord 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.
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 the Lord 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.”
But 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.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- as it is written
- Deuteronomy 24:16; 2 Kings 14:5, 6; Jeremiah 31:29, 30; Ezekiel 18:4, 20