1 Kings 2:43 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Why then have you not kept your oath to the Lord and the commandment with which I charged you?” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Why then have you not kept the oath of the Lord and the command with which I have charged you? American Standard Version (1901) Why then hast thou not kept the oath of Jehovah, and the commandment that I have charged thee with? Common English Bible Why didn’t you keep your solemn promise to the LORD and the command that I gave you?” Catholic Public Domain Version Then why have you not kept the oath to the Lord, and the commandment which I instructed to you?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I laid upon thee? |
So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites; although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had tried to wipe them out in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)
the king sent and summoned Shimei and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the Lord and solemnly adjure you, saying, ‘Know for certain that on the day you go out and go to any place whatever, you shall die’? And you said to me, ‘The sentence is fair; I accept.’
The king also said to Shimei, “You know in your own heart all the evil that you did to my father David, so the Lord will bring back your evil on your own head.
The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the officials commanded by the word of the Lord.
Therefore one must be subject, not only because of wrath but also because of conscience.