1 Kings 2:29

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When it was told King Solomon, “Joab has fled to the tent of the Lord and now is beside the altar,” Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, strike him down.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 8:18

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were priests.

1 Kings 2:25

So King Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada; he struck him down, and he died.

1 Kings 2:30

So Benaiah came to the tent of the Lord and said to him, “The king commands, ‘Come out.’ ” But he said, “No, I will die here.” Then Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.”

1 Kings 2:31

The king replied to him, “Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him, and thus take away from me and from my father’s house the guilt for the blood that Joab shed without cause.

1 Kings 2:46

Then the king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck him down, and he died. So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

Exodus 21:14

But if someone willfully attacks and kills another by treachery, you shall take the killer from my altar for execution.

Proverbs 28:17

If someone is burdened with the blood of another, let that killer be a fugitive until death; let no one offer assistance.

Ezekiel 9:6

Cut down old men, young men and young women, little children and women, but touch no one who has the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were in front of the house.

1 Peter 4:17

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God; if it begins with us, what will be the end for those who do not obey the gospel of God?