Now it happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he executed his servants who had murdered his father the king.

But the children of the murderers he did not execute, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, in which the LORD commanded, saying, "Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; but a person shall be put to death for his own sin."

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."

"In those days they shall say no more: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.'

"But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

"The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.