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- Catholic Giving - About USCCB Amaziah’s Good Start. 1a Amaziah
was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned
twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan,
from Jerusalem. 2He did what was right in the LORD’s sight,
though not wholeheartedly. 3When he had the kingdom firmly in
hand, he struck down the officials who had struck down the king,
his father. 4But their children he did not put to death, for he
acted according to what is written in the law, in the Book of
Moses, which the LORD commanded: “Parents shall not be put to
death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for
their parents; they shall each die for their own sin.”b 5Amaziah
gathered Judah and placed them, out of all Judah and Benjamin
according to their ancestral houses, under leaders of thousands
and of hundreds. When he made a count of those twenty years old
and over, he found that there were three hundred thousand picked
men fit