6Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.


In Context

3 and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.

4 That Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your 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 you,' he said, 'a man on the throne of Israel.'

5 |Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

7 But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

8 |Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, 'I will not put you to death with the sword.'

1 Kings 2:6 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:6Deal with him according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to the grave in peace.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:6Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:6Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to Sheol in peace.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:6And thou shalt do according to thy wisdom, and not let his hoar head go down to Sheol in peace.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:6Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:6and thou hast done according to thy wisdom, and dost not let his old age go down in peace to Sheol.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:6Do therefore according to your wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.