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1 Kings 2:36 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and live there, and don’t go anywhere else. "

1 Kings 2:36

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34 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

35 The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.

36 The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and live there, and don’t go anywhere else.

37 For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head.”

38 Shimei said to the king, “What you say is good. As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.

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2 Samuel 19:23

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"The king said to Shimei, “You will not die.” The king swore to him."

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2 Samuel 19:21

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"But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?”"

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Nehemiah 2:5

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"I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”"

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Ezra 1:3

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"Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem."

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Nehemiah 6:7

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"You have also appointed prophets to proclaim of you at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let’s take counsel together.”"

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Jeremiah 22:1

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"The LORD said, “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak this word there:"

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1 Kings 2:1

"Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,"

1 Kings 2:2

"“I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;"

1 Kings 2:3

"and keep the instruction of the LORD 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."

1 Kings 2:4

"Then the LORD may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of 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.’"

1 Kings 2:5

"“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 around his waist and in his sandals that were on his feet."

1 Kings 2:6

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

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