1 Kings 2:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

So be guided by your wisdom, and let not his white head go down to the underworld in peace.

Cross References

Genesis 42:38

And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow.

Genesis 9:5

And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.

2 Samuel 3:39

While I, though I am crowned king, have little strength, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are out of my control: may the Lord give to the evil-doer the reward of his evil-doing!

1 Kings 2:7

But be good to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be guests at your table; for so they came to me when I went in flight from Absalom your brother.

1 Kings 2:9

But do not let him be free from punishment, for you are a wise man; and it will be clear to you what you have to do with him; see that his white head goes down to the underworld in blood.

1 Kings 3:12

I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.

2 Kings 22:20

For this cause I will let you go to your fathers and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place. So they took this news back to the king.

Psalm 37:37

Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.

Proverbs 20:26

A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.

Proverbs 28:17

One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.

Isaiah 48:22

There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.

Isaiah 57:2

They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.

Isaiah 57:21

There is no peace, says my God, for the evil-doers.

Isaiah 65:20

No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.

Numbers 35:33

So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.