1 Kings 2:6

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

Cross References

Genesis 42:38

But he said: "My son will not go down with you. His brother is dead, and he is left alone. If any adversity will befall him in the land to which you travel, you would lead my grey hairs down with sorrow to the grave."

Genesis 9:5

For I will examine the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast. So also, at the hand of mankind, at the hand of each man and his brother, I will examine the life of mankind.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever will shed human blood, his blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God.

2 Samuel 3:39

But I am still tender, and yet anointed king. And these men of the sons of Zeruiah are too harsh for me. May the Lord repay whoever does evil in accord with his malice."

1 Kings 2:7

Then, too, repay grace to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite. And you shall allow them to eat at your table. For they met me when I fled from the face of Absalom, your brother.

1 Kings 2:9

yet do not choose to treat him as if he were innocent. Since you are a wise man, you will know what to do with him. And you shall lead away his grey hair to death with blood."

1 Kings 3:12

behold, I have done for you according to your words, and I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so much so that there has been no one like you before you, nor anyone who will rise up after you.

2 Kings 22:20

For this reason, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your sepulcher in peace, so that your eyes may not see all the evils that I will bring over this place."

Proverbs 20:26

A wise king scatters the impious and bends an archway over them.

Proverbs 28:17

A man who slanders the blood of a life, even if he flees to the pit, no one will tolerate him.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

For the sons of men perpetrate evils without any fear, because judgment is not pronounced quickly against the evil.

Isaiah 48:22

"There is no peace for the impious," says the Lord.

Isaiah 57:2

Let peace arrive. Let he who has walked in his righteousness find rest on his bed.

Isaiah 57:21

There is no peace for the impious, says the Lord God.

Isaiah 65:20

There will no longer be an infant of only a few days there, nor an elder who does not complete his days. For a mere child dies at a hundred years of age, and a sinner of a hundred years will be accursed.

Numbers 35:33

Do not pollute the land of your habitation, so as to stain it with the blood of the innocent; neither is it able to be expiated in any way other than by the blood of him who has shed the blood of another.