These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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1 Kings 2
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- 1 Now the days of drew nigh that he should die; and he charged his son, saying:
- 2 I go the way of all the earth; be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man;
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and keep the charge of thy , to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, and His commandments, and His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to that which is written in the of , that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself;
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Deuteronomy 29:9 1 Chronicles 22:12-13 Deuteronomy 17:18-20 1 Samuel 18:14 Psalm 119:98-100 Deuteronomy 6:1-2 2 Kings 18:7 Psalm 119:138 Deuteronomy 4:8 Deuteronomy 4:45 Malachi 4:4 Psalm 19:7 1 Samuel 18:5 Deuteronomy 5:1 Joshua 22:5 Deuteronomy 4:1 Deuteronomy 4:5 Psalm 119:111 Joshua 1:7-8 1 Samuel 18:30 Proverbs 3:1-4 1 Chronicles 29:19 2 Samuel 8:14 2 Chronicles 31:20-21 2 Samuel 8:6 Psalm 1:2-3 1 Chronicles 28:8-9 Psalm 119:2 -
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that may establish His which He spoke concerning me, saying: If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before Me in with all their and with all their , there shall not fail thee, said He, a man on the throne of .
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2 Kings 20:3 1 Kings 8:25 2 Samuel 7:25 1 Kings 3:3 1 Chronicles 22:9-11 Deuteronomy 7:12 Genesis 17:1 1 Kings 8:23 2 Samuel 7:11-16 1 Chronicles 28:5-7 Genesis 18:19 2 Kings 23:25 2 Chronicles 17:3 Leviticus 26:3 1 Chronicles 17:11-15 Deuteronomy 6:5 Psalm 89:29-37 John 15:9-10 Psalm 37:9 2 Kings 23:3 Matthew 22:37 1 Kings 9:5 Jude 1:20-21 Deuteronomy 10:12 Deuteronomy 11:13 1 Kings 3:14 Luke 1:6 1 Chronicles 28:9 Zechariah 14:2 Psalm 37:22 Psalm 132:11-12 Jude 1:24 - 5 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did unto me, even what he did to the two captains of the hosts of , unto Abner the son of Ner and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the of war in , and put the of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
- 6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in .
- 7 But show kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table; for so they drew nigh unto me when I fled from thy brother.
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And, behold, there is with thee Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the , and I swore to him by , saying: I will not put thee to death with the sword.
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Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for thou art a wise man; and thou wilt what thou oughtest to do unto him, and thou shalt bring his hoar head down to the grave with .’
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And slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of .
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And the days that reigned over were forty years: seven years reigned he in , and thirty and three years reigned he in .
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- 12 And sat upon the throne of his father; and his was established firmly.
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Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bath-sheba the mother of . And she said: ‘Comest thou peaceably?’ And he said: ‘Peaceably.’
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He said moreover: ‘I have somewhat to say unto thee.’ And she said: ‘Say on.’
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- 15 And he said: ‘Thou knowest that the was mine, and that all set their faces on me, that I should reign; howbeit the is turned about, and is become my brother’s; for it was his from .
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And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not.’ And she said unto him: ‘Say on.’
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And he said: ‘Speak, I pray thee, unto the —for he will not say thee nay—that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.’
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And Bath-sheba said: ‘Well; I will speak for thee unto the .’
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Bath-sheba therefore went unto , to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the rose up to meet her, and bowed down unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.
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- 20 Then she said: ‘I ask one small petition of thee; deny me not.’ And the said unto her: ‘Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny thee.’
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And she said: ‘Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.’
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- 22 And answered and said unto his mother: ‘And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the , and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.’
- 23 Then swore by , saying: ‘ do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this against his own life.
- 24 Now therefore as liveth, who hath established me, and set me on the throne of my father, and who hath made me a house, as He promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day.’
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And sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him, so that he died.
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- 26 And unto Abiathar the said the : ‘Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art deserving of death; but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou didst bear the of before my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.’
- 27 So thrust out Abiathar from being unto ; that the of might be fulfilled, which He spoke concerning the house of Eli in .
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And the tidings came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after . And Joab fled unto the Tent of , and caught hold on the horns of the .
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And it was told : ‘Joab is fled unto the Tent of , and, behold, he is by the .’ Then sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying: ‘Go, fall upon him.’
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- 30 And Benaiah came to the Tent of , and said unto him: ‘Thus saith the : Come forth.’ And he said: ‘Nay; but I will die here.’ And Benaiah brought back unto the , saying: ‘Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.’
- 31 And the said unto him: ‘Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the , which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.
- 32 And will return his upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, and my father knew it not: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of , and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of .
- 33 So shall their return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever; but unto , and unto his seed, and unto his house, and unto his throne, shall there be for ever from .’
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Then 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.
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- 35 And the put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host; and Zadok the did the put in the room of Abiathar.
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And the sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him: Build thee a house in , and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither.
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- 37 For on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou for certain that thou shalt surely die; thy shall be upon thine own head.’
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And Shimei said unto the : ‘The saying is good; as my lord the hath said, so will thy do.’ And Shimei dwelt in many days.
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And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish, son of Maacah, of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying: ‘Behold, thy servants are in Gath.’
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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.
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- 41 And it was told that Shimei had gone from to Gath, and was come back.
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And the sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him: ‘Did I not make thee to swear by , and forewarned thee, saying: Know for certain, that on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me: The saying is good; I have heard it.
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Why then hast thou not kept the oath of , and the that I have charged thee with?’
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The said moreover to Shimei: ‘Thou knowest all the wickedness which thy is privy to, that thou didst to my father; therefore shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head.
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But shall be blessed, and the throne of shall be established before for ever.’
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So the commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell upon him, so that he died. And the was established in the hand of .
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