1 Kings 2:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Act with all the wisdom you possess; do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

Cross References

Genesis 42:38

But Jacob replied: “My son shall not go down with you. Now that his brother is dead, he is the only one left. If some disaster should befall him on the journey you must make, you would send my white head down to Sheol in grief.”

Genesis 9:5

Indeed for your own lifeblood I will demand an accounting: from every animal I will demand it, and from a human being, each one for the blood of another, I will demand an accounting for human life.

Genesis 9:6

Anyone who sheds the blood of a human being, by a human being shall that one’s blood be shed; For in the image of God have human beings been made.

2 Samuel 3:39

Although I am the anointed king, I am weak this day, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too ruthless for me. May the Lord repay the evildoer in accordance with his evil deed.”

1 Kings 2:7

But be true to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and have them among those who eat at your table. For they were loyal to me when I was fleeing from your brother Absalom.

1 Kings 2:9

But you must not let him go unpunished. You are wise; you will know what to do to send his gray head down to Sheol in blood.”

1 Kings 3:12

I now do as you request. I give you a heart so wise and discerning that there has never been anyone like you until now, nor after you will there be anyone to equal you.

2 Kings 22:20

I will therefore gather you to your ancestors; you shall go to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the evil I am about to bring upon this place.” This they reported to the king.

Psalm 37:37

Observe the person of integrity and mark the upright; Because there is a future for a man of peace.

Proverbs 20:26

A wise king winnows the wicked, and threshes them under the cartwheel.

Proverbs 28:17

Though a person burdened with blood guilt is in flight even to the grave, let no one offer support.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not promptly executed, the human heart is filled with the desire to commit evil—

Isaiah 48:22

There is no peace for the wicked, says the Lord.

Isaiah 57:2

and enter into peace; They rest upon their couches, the sincere, who walk in integrity.

Isaiah 57:21

There is no peace for the wicked! says my God.

Isaiah 65:20

No longer shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, nor anyone who does not live a full lifetime; One who dies at a hundred years shall be considered a youth, and one who falls short of a hundred shall be thought accursed.

Numbers 35:33

You will not pollute the land where you live. For bloodshed pollutes the land, and the land can have no expiation for the blood shed on it except through the blood of the one who shed it.