But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”
1 Kings 2:6 - English Standard Version 2016 Act therefore according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Do therefore according to your wisdom, but let not his hoary head go down to Sheol (the place of the dead) in peace. American Standard Version (1901) Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to Sheol in peace. Common English Bible So act wisely: Don’t allow him to die a peaceful death. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, act according to your wisdom. And you shall not allow his gray head to be led away to death in peace. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Do therefore according to thy wisdom: and let not his hoary head go down to hell in peace. |
But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”
And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.
And I was gentle today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are more severe than I. The Lord repay the evildoer according to his wickedness!”
But deal loyally with the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother.
Now therefore do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol.”
behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.
Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place.’” And they brought back word to the king.
Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
If one is burdened with the blood of another, he will be a fugitive until death; let no one help him.
Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.
he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.
No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the young man shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.