1 Kings 2:43

New Century Version

Why did you break your promise to the Lord and disobey my command?”

Cross References

Romans 13:5

So you must yield to the government, not only because you might be punished, but because you know it is right.

Ecclesiastes 8:2

Obey the king’s command, because you made a promise to God.

2 Chronicles 30:12

And God united all the people of Judah in obeying King Hezekiah and his officers, because their command had come from the Lord.

2 Samuel 21:2

(Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites; they were a group of Amorites who were left alive. The Israelites had promised not to hurt the Gibeonites, but Saul had tried to kill them, because he was eager to help the people of Israel and Judah.) King David called the Gibeonites together and spoke to them.

1 Kings 2:42

So Solomon sent for Shimei and said, “I made you promise in the name of the Lord not to leave Jerusalem. I warned you if you went out anywhere you would die, and you agreed to what I said.

1 Kings 2:44

The king also said, “You know the many wrong things you did to my father David, so now the Lord will punish you for those wrongs.