But he slew not their children. — The verse coincides almost exactly with 2 Kings 14:6. Literally, And their sons he put not to death; but according to what is written in the Torah, in the book of Moses, which Jehovah commanded, &c. The reference is evidently to Deuteronomy 24:16, which is more exactly repeated in Kings than here.
But every man shall die for his own sin. — Literally, But, each for (in) his own sin, shall they be put to death. Kings has the singular.