1 Kings 2:6

In 11 translations

BSB

So act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

KJV

Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.

WEB

Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.Sheol is the place of the dead.

ASV

Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to Sheol in peace.

LSV

and you have done according to your wisdom, and do not let his old age go down in peace to Sheol.

YLT

and thou hast done according to thy wisdom, and dost not let his old age go down in peace to Sheol.

DBY

And thou shalt do according to thy wisdom, and not let his hoar head go down to Sheol in peace.

DRC

Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoary head go down to hell in peace.

GNV

Doe therefore according to thy wisdome, and let thou not his hoare head go downe to the graue in peace.

JPS

Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.

LXXE

Therefore thou shalt deal with him according to thy wisdom, and thou shalt not bring down his grey hairs in peace to the grave.Gr. Hades.

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WLC

וְעָשִׂ֖יתָ כְּחָכְמָתֶ֑ךָ וְלֹֽא־תוֹרֵ֧ד שֵׂיבָת֛וֹ בְּשָׁלֹ֖ם שְׁאֹֽל׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ποιήσεις κατὰ τὴν σοφίαν σου, καὶ σὺ κατάξεις τὴν πολιὰν αὐτοῦ ἐν εἰρήνῃ εἰς ᾅδου.

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Cross-references most cited first

• 1 Kings 2:9Now therefore, do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You know what you ought to do to him to bring his gray head down to Sheol in blood.”
• Isaiah 48:22“There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”
• Proverbs 20:26A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.
• Ecclesiastes 8:11When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
• Proverbs 28:17A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.
• Isaiah 57:21“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
• Psalms 37:37Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.
• 2 Kings 22:20‘Therefore I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place.’” So they brought her answer back to the…
• Numbers 35:33Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
• 1 Kings 2:28–34When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah but not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the LORD and took hold of the horns of the altar. It was reported to King Solomon: “Joab has fled to the tent of…
• Isaiah 65:20No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
• Genesis 42:38But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”
• Isaiah 57:2Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest, lying down in death.
• Genesis 9:6Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

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