◄ 1 Kings 1:52 ►
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Good News Translation
Solomon replied, "If he is loyal, not even a hair on his head will be touched; but if he is not, he will die."

New Revised Standard Version
So Solomon responded, “If he proves to be a worthy man, not one of his hairs shall fall to the ground; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”

Contemporary English Version
Solomon answered, "If Adonijah doesn't cause any trouble, I won't hurt him. But if he does, I'll have him killed."

New American Bible
Solomon answered, “If he proves worthy, not a hair of his shall fall to the ground. But if evil is found in him, he shall die.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Solomon said: If he be a good man, there shall not so much as one hair of his head fall to the ground: but if evil be found in him, he shall die.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Solomon said: If he be a good man, there shall not so much as one hair of his head fall to the ground: but if evil be found in him, he shall die.

there shall

1 Samuel 14:45 And the people said to Saul: Shall Jonathan then die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? this must not be: As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people delivered Jonathan, that he should not die.

2 Samuel 14:11 And she said: Let the king remember the Lord his God, that the next of kin be not multiplied to take revenge, and that they may not kill my son. And he said: As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

Matthew 10:30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Luke 21:18 But a hair of your head shall not perish.

Acts 27:34 Wherefore, I pray you to take some meat for your health's sake: for there shall not an hair of the head of any of you perish.

wickedness

1 Kings 2:21-25 And she said: Let Abisag, the Sunamitess, be given to Adonias, thy brother, to wife. . . .

Job 15:22 He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light, looking round about for the sword on every side.

Proverbs 13:6 Justice keepeth the way of the innocent: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Proverbs 21:12 The just considereth seriously the house of the wicked, that he may withdraw the wicked from evil.

Context
Adonijah Learns of Solomon's Kingship
…51And they told Solomon, saying: Behold Adonias fearing king Solomon, hath taken hold of the horn of the altar, saying: Let king Solomon swear to me this day, that he will not kill his servant with the sword. 52And Solomon said: If he be a good man, there shall not so much as one hair of his head fall to the ground: but if evil be found in him, he shall die.53Then king Solomon sent, and brought him out from the altar: and going in, he worshipped king Solomon: and Solomon said to him: Go to thy house.…
Cross References
Matthew 10:30
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Acts 27:34
Wherefore, I pray you to take some meat for your health's sake: for there shall not an hair of the head of any of you perish.

1 Samuel 14:45
And the people said to Saul: Shall Jonathan then die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? this must not be: As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people delivered Jonathan, that he should not die.

2 Samuel 14:11
And she said: Let the king remember the Lord his God, that the next of kin be not multiplied to take revenge, and that they may not kill my son. And he said: As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

1 Kings 1:51
And they told Solomon, saying: Behold Adonias fearing king Solomon, hath taken hold of the horn of the altar, saying: Let king Solomon swear to me this day, that he will not kill his servant with the sword.

1 Kings 1:53
Then king Solomon sent, and brought him out from the altar: and going in, he worshipped king Solomon: and Solomon said to him: Go to thy house.

1 Kings 1:51
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