He that sheds man's blood, instead of that blood shall his own be shed, for in the image of God I made man.

And if any man strike another and he dies, let him be certainly put to death.

And if anyone lie in wait for his neighbor to slay him by craft, and he go for refuge, you shall take him from My altar to put him to death.

So shall you not pollute with murder the land in which you dwell; for this blood pollutes the land, and the land shall not be purged from the blood shed upon it, but by the blood of him that shed it.

And his servants rose up and formed a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of Millo that is in Silla.

And 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. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

And it came to pass, when the kingdom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain his father the king.

But he did not kill their sons, according to the covenant of the law of the Lord, as it is written, [and] as the Lord commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, and the sons shall not die for the fathers, but they shall die each for his own sin.