1 Kings 2:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Do therefore according to your wisdom, but let not his hoary head go down to Sheol (the place of the dead) in peace.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to Sheol in peace.

Common English Bible

⁶ So act wisely: Don’t allow him to die a peaceful death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Therefore, act according to your wisdom. And you shall not allow his gray head to be led away to death in peace.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Do therefore according to thy wisdom: and let not his hoary head go down to hell in peace.

1 Kings 2:6 Cross References

Genesis 42:38

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Genesis 9:5

And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man.

Genesis 9:6

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

2 Samuel 3:39

And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD reward the wicked doer according to his wickedness.

1 Kings 2:7

But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom thy brother.

1 Kings 2:9

Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for thou art a wise man; and thou wilt know what thou oughtest to do unto him, and thou shalt bring his hoar head down to the grave with blood.

1 Kings 3:12

behold, I have done according to thy word: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there hath been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.

2 Kings 22:20

Therefore, behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

Psalm 37:37

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: For the latter end of that man is peace.

Proverbs 20:26

A wise king winnoweth the wicked, And bringeth the threshing wheel over them.

Proverbs 28:17

A man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee unto the pit; let no man stay him.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Isaiah 48:22

There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

Isaiah 57:2

He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness.

Isaiah 57:21

There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

Isaiah 65:20

There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old, and the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

Numbers 35:33

So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood, it polluteth the land: and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.