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Anyone who comes near you is to be killed." </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/2_kings/11-8.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/2_kings/11-8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/2_kings/11-8.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_kings/1.htm">2 Kings</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_kings/11.htm">Chapter 11</a> > Verse 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/11-7.htm" title="2 Kings 11:7">◄</a> 2 Kings 11:8 <a href="../2_kings/11-9.htm" title="2 Kings 11:9">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/2_kings/11.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/2_kings/11.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />You are to guard King Joash with drawn swords and stay with him wherever he goes. Anyone who comes near you is to be killed." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_kings/11.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />shall surround the king, each with weapons in hand; and whoever approaches the ranks is to be killed. Be with the king in his comings and goings.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/2_kings/11.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Make sure they follow him wherever he goes, and tell them to keep their swords ready to kill anyone who tries to get near him. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_kings/11.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />You shall surround the king, each with drawn weapons, and anyone who tries to approach the guard detail is to be killed; stay with the king, wherever he goes.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/2_kings/11.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And you shall compass him round about, having weapons in your hands: and if any man shall enter the precinct of the temple, let him be slain: and you shall be with the king, coming in and going out.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And you shall compass him round about, having weapons in your hands: and if any man shall enter the precinct of the temple, let him be slain: and you shall be with the king, coming in and going out.</p><p class="hdg">he that cometh</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/11-15.htm">2 Kings 11:15</a> But Joiada commanded the centurions that were over the army, and said to them: Have her forth without the precinct of the temple, and whosoever shall follow her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest had said: Let her not be slain in the temple of the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/21-14.htm">Exodus 21:14</a> If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose, and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar that he may die.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/2-28.htm">1 Kings 2:28-31</a> And the news came to Joab, because Joab had turned after Adonias, and had not turned after Solomon: and Joab fled into the tabernacle of the Lord, and took hold on the horn of the altar. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/23-7.htm">2 Chronicles 23:7</a> And let the Levites be round about the king, every man with his arms; and if any other come into the temple, let him be slain; and let them be with the king, both coming in, and going out.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/2_kings/11.htm">Joash Anointed King in Judah</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">7</span>But let two parts of you all that go forth on the sabbath, keep the watch of the house of the Lord about the king. <span class="reftext">8</span><span class="highl">And you shall compass him round about, having weapons in your hands: and if any man shall enter the precinct of the temple, let him be slain: and you shall be with the king, coming in and going out.</span><span class="reftext">9</span>And the centurions did according to all things that Joiada the priest, had commanded them: and taking every one their men, that went in on the sabbath, with them that went out in the sabbath, came to Joiada, the priest.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../numbers/27-16.htm">Numbers 27:16</a></span><br />May the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh provide a man, that may be over this multitude:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../numbers/27-17.htm">Numbers 27:17</a></span><br />And may go out and in before them, and may lead them out, or bring them in: lest the people of the Lord be as sheep without a shepherd.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_kings/11-7.htm">2 Kings 11:7</a></span><br />But let two parts of you all that go forth on the sabbath, keep the watch of the house of the Lord about the king.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/deuteronomy/23-11.htm">Approaches</a> <a href="/2_samuel/5-23.htm">Circle</a> <a href="/2_kings/3-9.htm">Compass</a> <a href="/2_kings/8-21.htm">Compassed</a> <a href="/2_kings/11-1.htm">Death</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-15.htm">Encompass</a> <a href="/2_kings/5-18.htm">Goes</a> <a 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