1 Kings 2:43 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁴³ So why have you not kept the Lord’s oath and the command that I gave you? ’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴³ Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴³ Why then have you not kept the oath of the Lord and the command with which I have charged you?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴³ Why then hast thou not kept the oath of Jehovah, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?

Common English Bible

⁴³ Why didn’t you keep your solemn promise to the LORD and the command that I gave you?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴³ Then why have you not kept the oath to the Lord, and the commandment which I instructed to you?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴³ Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I laid upon thee?

1 Kings 2:43 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 21:2

The Gibeonites were not Israelites but rather a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them,  but Saul had tried to kill them in his zeal for the Israelites and Judah. So David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them.

1 Kings 2:42

So the king summoned Shimei and said to him, ‘Didn’t I make you swear by the Lord and warn you, saying, “On the day you leave and go anywhere else, know for sure that you will certainly die”? And you said to me, “The sentence is fair; I will obey.”

1 Kings 2:44

The king also said, ‘You yourself know all the evil that you did to my father David.  Therefore, the Lord has brought back your evil on your head,

2 Chronicles 30:12

Also, the power of God was at work in Judah to unite them  to carry out the command of the king and his officials by the word of the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 8:2

Keep  the king’s command because of your oath made before God.

Romans 13:5

Therefore, you must submit, not only because of wrath but also because of your conscience.