1 Kings 2:9
Good News Translation
But you must not let him go unpunished. You know what to do, and you must see to it that he is put to death."

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; you will know what you ought to do to him, and you must bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol.”

Contemporary English Version
Now you must punish him. He's an old man, but you're wise enough to know that you must have him killed.

New American Bible
But you must not let him go unpunished. You are wise; you will know what to do to send his gray head down to Sheol in blood.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do not thou hold him guiltless. But thou art a wise man, and knowest what to do with him, and thou shalt bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Do not thou hold him guiltless. But thou art a wise man, and knowest what to do with him, and thou shalt bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.

Judges 5:30 Perhaps he is now dividing the spoils, and the fairest of the women is chosen out for him: garments of divers colours are given to Sisara for his prey, and furniture of different kinds is heaped together to adorn necks.

1 Samuel 2:3 Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him are thoughts prepared.

Psalm 1:5 Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment: nor sinners in the council of the just.

Psalm 9:18 For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience of the poor shall not perish for ever.

Psalm 38:1 A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath. [2] Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; nor chastise me in thy wrath.

Psalm 75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not iniquity against God.

Proverbs 5:16 Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.

Proverbs 24:12 If thou say: I have not strength enough: he that seeth into the heart, he understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul, and he shall render to a man according to his works.

Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.

Exodus 22:28 Thou shalt not speak ill of the gods, and the prince of thy people thou shalt not curse.

Job 9:28 I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.

wise

1 Kings 3:12,28 Behold I have done for thee according to thy words, and have given thee a wise and understanding heart, in so much that there hath been no one like thee before thee, nor shall arise after thee. . . .

his

1 Kings 2:6 Do, therefore, according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoary head go down to hell in peace.

Genesis 42:38 But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land to which you go, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to hell.

Genesis 44:31 And he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy servants shall bring down his grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.

with

Numbers 32:23 But if you do not what you say, no man can doubt but you sin against God: and know ye, that your sin shall overtake you.

Context
David Instructs Solomon
8Thou hast also with thee Semei, the son of Gera, the son of Jemini, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse, when I went to the camp: but because he came down to meet me when I passed over the Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying: I will not kill thee with the sword: 9Do not thou hold him guiltless. But thou art a wise man, and knowest what to do with him, and thou shalt bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:5
And king David came as far as Bahurim: and behold there came out from thence a man of the kindred of the house of Saul named Semei, the son of Gera, and coming out he cursed as he went on,

1 Kings 2:6
Do, therefore, according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoary head go down to hell in peace.

1 Kings 2:8
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