1 Kings 2:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.”
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“So act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to Sheol in peace.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and thou hast done according to thy wisdom, and dost not let his old age go down in peace to Sheol.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Kings 2:6 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 9:5And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
- Genesis 9:6Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
- Genesis 42:38But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”
- Numbers 35:33Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
- 2 Samuel 3:39And I am weak this day, though anointed as king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me. May the LORD repay the evildoer according to his evil!”
- 1 Kings 2:9Now therefore, do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You know what you ought to do to him to bring his gray head down to Sheol in blood.”
- 1 Kings 2:28When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah but not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the LORD and took hold of the horns of the altar.
- 1 Kings 3:12behold, I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has never been nor will ever be another like you.
- 2 Kings 22:20‘Therefore I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
- Psalms 37:37Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.
- Proverbs 20:26A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.
- Proverbs 28:17A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.
- Ecclesiastes 8:11When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
- Isaiah 48:22“There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”
- Isaiah 57:2Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest, lying down in death.
- Isaiah 57:21“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
- Isaiah 65:20No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
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