Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made man.

He who strikes a man so that he dies shall be executed to death.

But if a man comes presumptuously against his neighbor, to kill him by deceit, you shall take him even from My altar, that he may die.

Thus you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood pollutes the land. And no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who sheds it.

And his servants rose up and conspired treason, and killed Joash in the house of the Millo, which goes down to Silla.

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

Now it happened, when the kingdom had been secured to him, that he executed his servants who had killed his father the king.

However he did not execute their children, but did as it is written in the Law in the Book of Moses, where Jehovah had commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall the sons be put to death for their fathers; but each shall die for his own sin.