"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 surely be put to death.

" But if a man acts with premeditation against his neighbor, to kill him by treachery, you shall take him from My altar, that he may die.

'So you shall not pollute the land where you [are;] for blood defiles 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 shed it.

And his servants arose and formed a conspiracy, 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. Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

Now it happened, as soon as the kingdom was established for him, that he executed his servants who had murdered 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 the LORD commanded, saying, "The fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall the children be put to death for their fathers; but a person shall die for his own sin."