2 Kings 14:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he killed his servants who had killed the king his father.

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  • Gen 9:6 : 6 Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made man.
  • Exod 21:12-14 : 12 He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death. 13 However, if he did not lie in wait, but God delivered him into his hand, then I will appoint a place for you where he may flee. 14 But if a man acts presumptuously against his neighbor, to kill him with guile, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
  • Num 35:33 : 33 So you shall not pollute the land where you are: for blood defiles the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
  • 2 Kgs 12:20-21 : 20 His servants arose, made a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla. 21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the City of David. Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
  • 2 Chr 25:3-4 : 3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he killed his servants who had killed the king his father. 4 But he did not kill their children, 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.

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  • 2 Chr 25:3-4
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    3Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he killed his servants who had killed the king his father.

    4But he did not kill their children, 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.

  • 2 Kgs 14:6
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    6But the children of the murderers he did not kill, according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

  • 2 Chr 21:4
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    4When Jehoram had ascended to his father's kingdom, he strengthened himself and killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 2:46
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    46So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck him down and he died. And the kingdom was firmly established in the hand of Solomon.

  • 2 Chr 22:8-9
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    8And it happened that when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab and found the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers who ministered to Ahaziah, he killed them.

    9And he sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (for he was hidden in Samaria) and brought him to Jehu, and when they had killed him, they buried him, for they said, 'He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.' So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep the kingdom.

  • 2 Chr 33:24-25
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    24And his servants conspired against him and killed him in his own house.

    25But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

  • 1 Kgs 2:24-25
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    24Now therefore, as the Lord lives, who has established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as He promised, Adonijah shall be put to death today.

    25And King Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him and he died.

  • 2 Chr 28:5
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    5Therefore, the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria, and they struck him and carried away a great multitude as captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter.

  • 2 Chr 24:25
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    25And when they departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the sepulchres of the kings.

  • 2 Chr 24:22
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    22So Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.

  • 1 Sam 22:16-17
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    16And the king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house.

    17And the king said to the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not show it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to attack the priests of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 12:20-21
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    20His servants arose, made a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

    21For Jozachar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the City of David. Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

  • 1 Chr 10:14
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    14And he did not inquire of the LORD. Therefore He killed him and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.

  • 2 Sam 1:15
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    15And David called one of the young men and said, Go near, and strike him. And he smote him that he died.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31-32
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    31And the king said unto him, Do as he has said, and strike him down and bury him, that you may take away the innocent blood which Joab shed, from me and from the house of my father.

    32And the Lord will return his blood upon his own head, who struck down two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, my father David not knowing of it: namely, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 21:23-24
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    23And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and killed the king in his own house.

    24And the people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 11:16
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    16They seized her, and she went by the way of the horses' entrance to the king's house, and there she was slain.

  • 2 Chr 23:15
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    15So they laid hands on her; and when she came to the entrance of the Horse Gate by the king's house, they slew her there.

  • 2 Kgs 14:4
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    4However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 10:9
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    9And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, You are righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and killed him: but who killed all these?

  • 2 Chr 21:12-13
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    12Elijah the prophet sent him a letter, saying, "This is what the LORD, the God of David your father, says: Because you have not followed the ways of Jehoshaphat your father or Asa king of Judah,

    13but have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and have led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into idolatry as the house of Ahab did, and have also killed your brothers, who were better than you,

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
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    3He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; his heart was not right with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

  • 1 Kgs 15:29
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    29It came to pass, as soon as he reigned, that he struck all the house of Jeroboam; he left to Jeroboam none that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,

  • 2 Chr 22:4
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    4Therefore, he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, leading to his destruction.

  • 2 Kgs 3:27
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    27Then he took his eldest son, who was to reign in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great wrath against Israel, and they departed from him and returned to their own land.

  • 1 Kgs 2:34
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    34So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and struck and killed him, and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

  • 2 Chr 28:7
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    7And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah who was next to the king.

  • 2 Kgs 15:10
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    10And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place.

  • 1 Kgs 16:10-11
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    10Zimri went in and struck him down and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.

    11As soon as he began to reign and sat on his throne, he struck down all the house of Baasha; he left him not a single male, neither of his kinsmen nor of his friends.

  • 2 Kgs 10:25
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    25And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come out. And they struck them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.

  • 2 Kgs 15:5
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    5And the LORD struck the king, so that he was a leper until the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land.

  • 1 Sam 24:11
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    11Moreover, my father, see, yes, see the edge of your robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the edge of your robe and killed you not, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you; yet you hunt my soul to take it.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
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    6And your maidservant had two sons, and the two fought together in the field, and there was none to separate them, but one struck the other, and killed him.

    7And, behold, the whole family has risen against your maidservant, and they said, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall extinguish my last remaining ember, and shall not leave to my husband either name or remnant on the earth.

  • 2 Kgs 14:19
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    19Now they conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.

  • 2 Chr 25:27
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    27Now after the time that Amaziah turned away from following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent to Lachish after him, and killed him there.

  • 2 Chr 34:5
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    5And he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 4:11
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    11How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed? Shall I not therefore now require his blood from your hand, and remove you from the earth?

  • 2 Sam 1:10
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    10So I stood upon him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord.

  • 2 Kgs 10:17
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    17And when he came to Samaria, he killed all that remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke to Elijah.