Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, “So may God do to me, and more also, for Adonijah has devised this scheme at the risk of his life!
Habakkuk 2:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You have devised shame to your house by cutting off and putting an end to many peoples, and you have sinned against and forfeited your own life. American Standard Version (1901) Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy soul. Common English Bible You plan shame for your own house, cutting off many peoples and sinning against your own life. Catholic Public Domain Version You have devised confusion for your house, you have cut to pieces many peoples, and your soul has sinned. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou hast devised confusion to thy house, thou hast cut off many people, and thy soul hath sinned. |
Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, “So may God do to me, and more also, for Adonijah has devised this scheme at the risk of his life!
When the letter reached them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, seventy persons; they put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.
‘For the blood of Naboth and for the blood of his children that I saw yesterday, says the Lord, I swear I will repay you on this very plot of ground.’ Now, therefore, lift him out and throw him on the plot of ground in accordance with the word of the Lord.”
yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves! and set an ambush—for their own lives!
The dread anger of a king is like the growling of a lion; anyone who provokes him to anger forfeits life itself.
You conceive chaff; you bring forth stubble; wind like a fire will consume you.
Thus says the Lord: Record this man as childless, a man who shall not succeed in his days, for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah.
“Did King Hezekiah of Judah and all Judah actually put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, and did not the Lord change his mind about the disaster that he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great disaster on ourselves!”
And I will punish him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity; I will bring on them and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem and on the people of Judah all the disasters with which I have threatened them, but they would not listen.
And now thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves, to cut off man and woman, child and infant, from the midst of Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant?
The Lord has commanded concerning you: Your name shall be perpetuated no longer; from the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the cast image. I will prepare your grave, for you are worthless.
You will be sated with contempt instead of glory. Drink, you yourself, and stagger! The cup in the Lord’s right hand will come around to you, and shame will come upon your glory!
For the censers of these sinners have become holy at the cost of their lives. Make them into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they presented them before the Lord and they became holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the Israelites.”
Then the people as a whole answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”