1 Kings 2:6
So be guided by your wisdom, and let not his white head go down to the underworld in peace.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 9:6Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
Numbers 35:33So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.
1 Kings 2:9But do not let him be free from punishment, for you are a wise man; and it will be clear to you what you have to do with him; see that his white head goes down to the underworld in blood.
1 Kings 3:12I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.
Psalms 37:37Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.
Proverbs 28:17One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 2:2-12
David's Dying Charge; David's Death and Burial. ( b. c. 1015.) 1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, 2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man; 3 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: 4… Read the whole commentary →