2 Kings 1:4
Wherefore thus saith the Lord: From the bed, on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down, but thou shalt surely die. And Elias went away.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
5And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said to them: Why are you come back?
Cross References
Genesis 2:17But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. for in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.
Numbers 26:65For the Lord had foretold that they should die in the wilderness. And none remained of them, but Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.
1 Kings 14:12Arise thou therefore, and go to thy house: and when thy feet shall be entering into the city, the child shall die,
2 Kings 1:6But they answered him: A man met us, and said to us: Go, and return to the king, that sent you, and you shall say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Is it because there was no God in Israel that thou sendest to Beelzebub the god of Accaron? Therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed, on which thou art gone up, but then shalt surely die.
2 Kings 8:10And Eliseus said to him: Go tell him: Thou shalt recover: bat the Lord hath shewn me that he shall surely die.
Proverbs 11:19Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 1:2-9
Second Kings This second book of the Kings (which the LXX., numbering from Samuel, called the fourth ) is a continuation of the former book; and, some think, might better have been made to begin with the fifty-first verse of the foregoing chapter , where the reign of Ahaziah begins. The former book had an illustrious beginning, in the glories of the kingdom of Israel, when it was entire; this has a melancholy conclusion, in the desolations of the kingdoms of Israel first, and then of Judah, after they had been… Read the whole commentary →