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The Execution of Shimei

1 Kings 2:43

In 11 translations

BSB
So why have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the command that I gave you?”
KJV
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?
WEB
Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh and the commandment that I have instructed you with?”
ASV
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of Jehovah, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?
LSV
And why have you not kept the oath of YHWH, and the charge that I charged on you?”
YLT
and wherefore hast thou not kept the oath of Jehovah, and the charge that I charged upon thee?'
DBY
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of Jehovah, and the commandment that I charged thee with?
DRC
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I laid upon thee?
GNV
Why then hast thou not kept the othe of the Lord, and the commandement wherewith I charged thee?
JPS
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?'
LXXE
And why hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment which I commanded thee?Gr. against thee.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וּמַדּ֕וּעַ לֹ֣א שָׁמַ֔רְתָּ אֵ֖ת שְׁבֻעַ֣ת יְהוָ֑ה וְאֶת־הַמִּצְוָ֖ה אֲשֶׁר־צִוִּ֥יתִי עָלֶֽיךָ׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ τί ὅτι οὐκ ἐφύλαξας τὸν ὅρκον Κυρίου, καὶ τὴν ἐντολὴν ἣν ἐνετειλάμην κατὰ σοῦ;

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  • Romans 13:5Therefore it is necessary to submit to authority, not only to avoid punishment, but also as a matter of conscience.
  • Ezekiel 17:18–19He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these things, he will not escape!’ Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, I will bring down…
  • 2 Chronicles 30:12Moreover, the power of God was on the people in Judah to give them one heart to obey the command of the king and his officials according to the word of the LORD.
  • Ecclesiastes 8:2Keep the king’s command, I say, because of your oath before God.
  • 2 Samuel 21:2At this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but in his zeal for Israel and Judah,…

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