1 Kings 2:6
So act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
Majority Standard Bible
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 sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
Numbers 35:33Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
1 Kings 2:9Now therefore, do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You know what you ought to do to him to bring his gray head down to Sheol in blood.”
1 Kings 3:12behold, I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been another like you, nor will there ever be.
Psalms 37:37Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.
Proverbs 28:17A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.
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 →