1 Kings 2:43 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴³ Why then have you not kept your oath to the Lord and the commandment with which I charged you?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴³ Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴³ Why then have you not kept the oath of the Lord and the command with which I have charged you?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴³ Why then hast thou not kept the oath of Jehovah, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?

Common English Bible

⁴³ Why didn’t you keep your solemn promise to the LORD and the command that I gave you?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴³ 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

⁴³ Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I laid upon thee?

1 Kings 2:43 Cross References

2 Samuel 21:2

So the king called the Gibeonites. 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 sought to slay them in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.

1 Kings 2:42

the king sent and summoned Shime-i, and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the Lord, and solemnly admonish you, saying, ‘Know for certain that on the day you go forth and go to any place whatever, you shall die’? And you said to me, ‘What you say is good; I obey.’

1 Kings 2:44

The king also said to Shime-i, “You know in your own heart all the evil that you did to David my father; so the Lord will bring back your evil upon your own head.

2 Chronicles 30:12

The hand of God was also upon Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 8:2

Keep the king's command, and because of your sacred oath be not dismayed;

Romans 13:5

Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.