4 The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there. 5 After the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king. 6 Yet he did not put the sons of the assassins to death, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses where the LORD commanded: Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sins. 7 He was the one who defeated ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and captured Sela in battle, calling it Joktheel, the name it has to this day.
* removed : 형) 떨어진, 동떨어진 * incense : 명) 향, 향료 향내, 향연 * firmly : 부) 굳게, 단단히, 확고하게, 단호히 * grasp : 동) …을 (단단히) 붙잡다, (꽉) 쥐다, …에게 매달리다 * execute : 동) …를 실행하다, …를 행하다 | |