1 Kings 2:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So King Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada; he struck him down, and he died.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So King Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, who attacked [Adonijah] and he died.

American Standard Version (1901)

And king Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him, so that he died.

Common English Bible

So King Solomon sent Benaiah, Jehoiada’s son. He attacked Adonijah, and Adonijah died.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, who put him to death, and so he died.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And king Solomon sent by the hand of Banaias the son of Joiada, who slew him: and he died.

1 Kings 2:25 Cross References

2 Samuel 1:15

Then David called one of the young men and said, “Come here and strike him down.” So he struck him down, and he died.

2 Samuel 12:10

Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, for you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

2 Samuel 4:12

So David commanded the young men, and they killed them; they cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies beside the pool at Hebron. But the head of Ishbaal they took and buried in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.

2 Samuel 8:18

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were priests.

1 Kings 2:29

When it was told King Solomon, “Joab has fled to the tent of the Lord and now is beside the altar,” Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, strike him down.”

1 Kings 2:31

The king replied to him, “Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him, and thus take away from me and from my father’s house the guilt for the blood that Joab shed without cause.

1 Kings 2:34

Then Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and struck him down and killed him, and he was buried at his own house near the wilderness.

1 Kings 2:46

Then the king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck him down, and he died. So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

Judges 15:12

They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, so that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines.” Samson answered them, “Swear to me that you yourselves will not attack me.”

1 Samuel 15:33

Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother shall be childless among women.” And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.