But he said, “My son will not go down with you—for his brother is dead and he alone remains. And if harm should happen to him along the way you’re going, you’ll bring my grey hair down to Sheol in grief.”
1 Kings 2:6 - Tree of Life Version So act according to your wisdom, and let his gray hair not go down to Sheol in shalom. 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 will not go down with you—for his brother is dead and he alone remains. And if harm should happen to him along the way you’re going, you’ll bring my grey hair down to Sheol in grief.”
Surely your lifeblood will I avenge. From every animal and from every person will I avenge it. From every person’s brother will I avenge that person’s life.
The one who sheds human blood, by a human will his blood be shed, for in God’s image He made humanity.
So today I am vulnerable, even though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too hard for me to handle. May Adonai reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.”
But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table—for they befriended me when I fled from your brother Absalom.
Now don’t let him go unpunished. For you are a wise man, and you will know how to deal with him, and bring his gray hair down to Sheol with blood.”
behold, I have done according to your words. I have given you a wise and discerning mind, so that there has been none like you before you, nor shall anyone like you arise after you.
‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers and you will be gathered to your grave in shalom. So your eyes will not see all the disaster I am bringing on this place.’” Then they brought back word to the king.
Notice the man of integrity and watch the upright— for the man of shalom has a future.
A wise king winnows out the wicked. He turns a threshing wheel over them.
A man tormented by the guilt of murder flees to the Pit—let no one support him.
When the sentence against a crime is not swiftly carried out, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.
He enters into shalom. They rest on their beds, each who walked in his integrity.
No longer will 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 youth will die at a hundred years, But one who misses the mark of a hundred must be accursed.
You are not to pollute the land in which you are. Blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for land polluted by bloodshed except by the blood of the one who sheds it.