1 Kings 2
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Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,
I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;
And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:

And keep

Deuteronomy 29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you …

Joshua 1:7 Only be you strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do …

Joshua 22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses …

1 Chronicles 22:12,13 Only the LORD give you wisdom and understanding, and give you charge …

1 Chronicles 28:8,9 Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the …

1 Chronicles 29:19 And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, …

statues

Deuteronomy 4:1,5,8 Now therefore listen, O Israel, to the statutes and to the judgments, …

Deuteronomy 5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the …

Deuteronomy 6:1,2 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, …

testimonies

Deuteronomy 4:45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which …

Psalm 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony …

Psalm 119:2,111,138 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with …

written

Deuteronomy 17:18-20 And it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom…

Malachi 4:4 Remember you the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him …

that thou

Deuteronomy 29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you …

prosper. or, do wisely.

Joshua 1:7,8 Only be you strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do …

1 Samuel 18:5,14,30 And David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: …

2 Chronicles 31:20,21 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and worked that which …

Psalm 1:2,3 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he …

Psalm 119:98-100 You through your commandments have made me wiser than my enemies: …

Proverbs 3:1-4 My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments…

whithersoever

2 Samuel 8:6,14 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became …

2 Kings 18:7 And the LORD was with him; and he prospered wherever he went forth: …

That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

That the Lord

Genesis 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household …

Deuteronomy 7:12 Why it shall come to pass, if you listen to these judgments, and …

1 Chronicles 28:9 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve …

John 15:9,10 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you: continue you in my love…

Jude 1:20,21,24 But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, …

his word

2 Samuel 7:11-16,25 And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people …

1 Chronicles 17:11-15 And it shall come to pass, when your days be expired that you must …

1 Chronicles 22:9-11 Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest; and …

1 Chronicles 28:5-7 And of all my sons…

Psalm 89:29-37 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the …

Psalm 132:11,12 The LORD has sworn in truth to David; he will not turn from it; Of …

walk

1 Kings 3:3,14 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his …

1 Kings 8:23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven …

Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to …

Leviticus 26:3 If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

2 Kings 20:3 I beseech you, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before you …

2 Kings 23:3,25 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, …

2 Chronicles 17:3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first …

Luke 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments …

with all their heart

Deuteronomy 6:5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with …

Deuteronomy 10:12 And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but …

Deuteronomy 11:13 And it shall come to pass, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments …

Matthew 22:37 Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your …

fail, etc. [heb] be cut off from thee from the throne

1 Kings 8:25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with your servant David my …

2 Samuel 7:12,13,16 And when your days be fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, …

Psalm 37:9,22 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait on the LORD, …

Zechariah 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the …

Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.
And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.

hold him Do not consider him as an innocent man; for, as thou art a wise man, and knowest how to treat such persons, threat him as he deserves; only as I have sworn to him that I would not put him to death, `bring NOT his hoar head down to the grave with blood.' So Solomon understood David; for, after he had commanded Joab to be slain, in obedience to his father, he sent for Shimei, and knowing he ought to be well watched, he confined him to Jerusalem for the rest of his life: and so it appears David should be understood; for the negative particle {lo}, in the former clause, `hold him {not} guiltless,' should be repeated in the latter clause, though not expressed; instances of which frequently occur in the Hebrew Scriptures.

Judges 5:30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man …

1 Samuel 2:3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogance come out of …

Psalm 1:5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners …

Psalm 9:18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the …

Psalm 38:1 O lord, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

Psalm 75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

Proverbs 5:16 Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

Proverbs 24:12 If you say, Behold, we knew it not; does not he that ponders the …

This is the view taken of the subject by Dr. Kennicott, and it seems the best and most correct mode of interpreting the text.

Exodus 20:7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the …

Exodus 22:28 You shall not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of your people.

Job 9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

wise

1 Kings 3:12,28 Behold, I have done according to your words: see, I have given you …

his

1 Kings 2:6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and let not his hoar head …

Genesis 42:38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is …

Genesis 44:31 It shall come to pass, when he sees that the lad is not with us, …

with

Numbers 32:23 But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD: …

So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.
He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she said, Say on.
And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD.
And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.
And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.
And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.
Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.
And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.
And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.
Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.
And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.
And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.

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And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.
So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither.

Shimei

2 Kings 2:8,9 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the …

2 Samuel 16:5-9 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out a man …

Proverbs 20:8,26 A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil …

Build No doubt Solomon suspected that Shimei's influence would be dangerous upon his own estate and among his numerous dependents in different parts of the land; and therefore he proposed to him, as the condition of his indemnity for former crimes, that he should live in Jerusalem under his eye, and by no means remove thence. These terms Shimei readily agreed to, and solemnly swore to observe them; and for three years he lived unmolested and in affluence. But growing secure, in contempt of Solomon's authority and of the oath of God, upon an unnecessary business he took a journey, which according to his own engagement forfeited his life. Thus the Lord left him to be infatuated, that due punishment might be inflicted upon him; in order that every ringleader of opposition to Solomon's kingdom might be crushed, and others be intimidated by their examples. Solomon's throne by the death of this man was established in peace, and became a type of the Redeemer's kingdom of peace and righteousness.--SCOTT.

1 Kings 1:53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And …

2 Samuel 14:24,28 And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not …

For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.
And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.
And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.
And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.
And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good.
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?
The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever.
So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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