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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Kings 2 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="../cmenus/1_kings/2.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="../topmenuchap/1_kings/2-1.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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > 1 Kings 2</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></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_kings/1.htm" title="1 Kings 1">◄</a> 1 Kings 2 <a href="../1_kings/3.htm" title="1 Kings 3">►</a></div></td></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="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/1_kings/2-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">David Instructs Solomon<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../psalms/37.htm">Psalm 37:1–40</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the days of David will draw near to die; and he will command Solomon his son, saying, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I go in the way of all the earth: and be thou strong, and be for a man; <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And watch the watches of Jehovah thy God, to go in his ways, to watch his laws, his commands and his judgments, and his testimonies, as written in the law of Moses, so that thou shalt consider all that thou shalt do and all Where thou shalt turn there: <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So that Jehovah shall raise up his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy sons shall watch their way to go before me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul, saying, There shall not be cut off to thee a man from the throne of Israel.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And also thou knewest what Joab on of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two chiefs of the armies of Israel, to Abner son of Ner, and to Amasa son of Jether; and he will kill them and put the bloods of war in peace, and give the bloods of war upon his girdle which was upon his loins, and in his shoe upon his feet. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And do according to thy wisdom, and thou wilt not bring down his gray hairs in peace to hades. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite thou shalt do mercy, and they shall be of those eating at thy table: for so they came near to me in my fleeing from the face of Absalom thy brother. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And behold, with thee Shimei, son of Gera, a Benjamite, of Bahurim; and he cursed me a strong curse in the day I went to the two camps and he came down to my meeting at Jordan, and I will swear to him by Jehovah, saying, If I shall kill thee with the sword. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And now thou shalt not let him go unpunished; for thou a wise man, and thou knowest what thou wilt do to him; and bring down his gray hairs with blood to hades.<p> <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">David’s Reign and Death<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_chronicles/29.htm#26">1 Chronicles 29:26–30</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And David will lie down with his fathers, and be buried in the city of David. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the days that David reigned over Israel, forty years: in Hebron he reigned seven years, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Solomon will sit upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom will be protected greatly.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">The Execution of Adonijah<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Adonijah son of Haggith, will come to Bath-sheba, Solomon's mother: and she will say, Thy coming peace? And he will say, Peace. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he will say, A word to me for thee. And she will say, Speak. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he will say, Thou knewest that to me was the kingdom, and upon me all Israel set their faces for king: and the kingdom will turn about and be for my brother, for from Jehovah it was to him. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And now I ask one asking from thee, thou wilt not turn away my face. And she will say to him, Speak. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And he will say, Speak now to Solomon the king, for he will not turn away thy face, and he will give to me Abishag the Shunamite for wife. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Bathsheba will say, Well I will speak for thee to the king.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Bathsheba will go to king Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king will rise up to her meeting, and worship to her, and he sat upon his throne, and a throne will be set for the king's mother; and she will sit at his right hand. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And she will say, One small asking I ask from thee; thou wilt not turn away my face. And the king will say to her, Ask, my mother, for I will not turn away thy face. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And she will say, Give Abishag the Shunamite to Adonijah thy brother for wife. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And king Solomon will answer, and say to his mother, And wherefore didst thou ask Abishag the Shunamite for Adonijah? And ask for him the kingdom, for he my brother, the great above me; and for him Abiathar the priest, and Joab son of Zeruiah. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And king Solomon will swear by Jehovah, saying, Thus will God do to me, and thus will he add, for Adonijah spoke this word against his soul. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And now Jehovah lives who prepared me, and he will set me upon the throne of David my father, and who made for me a house as he spake, for this day Adonijah shall die. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And king Solomon will send by the hand of Benaiah, son of Jehoida, and he will strike upon him and he will die.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And to Abiathar the priest the king said, Go to Anathoth upon thy field: for thou a man of death: and in this day will not kill thee, for thou didst lift up the ark of the Lord Jehovah before David my father, and because thou wert afflicted in all which my father was afflicted. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Solomon will drive out Abiathar from being priest to Jehovah, to complete the word of Jehovah which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.<p> <A name="29"></a><p class="hdg">The Execution of Joab<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And the report came even to Joab: (for Joab turned after Adonijah, and after Absalom he turned not;) and Joab will flee to the tent of Jehovah and will lay hold upon the horns of the altar. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And it will be announced to king Solomon that Joab fled to the tent of Jehovah; and behold, by the altar. And Solomon will send Benaiah son of Jehoida, saying, Go strike upon him. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And Benaiah will go to the tent of Jehovah, and say to him, Thus said the king, Come forth. And he will say, Nay; for here will I die. And Benaiah will turn back the king word, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And the king will say to him, Do as he said, and strike upon him, and bury him; and take away the bloods which Joab shed gratuitously, from me and from my father's house. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And Jehovah turned back his blood upon his head, who struck upon two just men and good above him, and he will kill them with the sword, and my father David knew not, Abner son of Ner, chief of the army of Israel, and Amasa, son of Jether, chief of the army of Judah. <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And their bloods shall turn back upon the head of Joab and upon the head of his seed forever: and to David and to his seed and to his house and to his throne shall be peace even forever, from Jehovah. <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And Benaiah son of Jehoida will go up, and will strike upon him and will kill him: and he will be buried in his house in the desert. <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And the king will give Benaiah son of Jehoida instead of him over the army: and Zadok the priest, the king gave instead of Abiathar.<p> <A name="37"></a><p class="hdg">The Execution of Shimei<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And the king will send and call for Shimei, and say to him, Build for thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and thou shalt not go forth from thence, whither and whither. <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>For being in the day of thy going forth, and thou didst pass the torrent Kidron, knowing, thou shalt know that dying, thou shalt die: thy blood shall be upon thy head. <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And Shimei will say, Good the word: according to what my lord the king spake, thus will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.<p> <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And it will be from the end of three years, and two servants to Shimei, will flee to Achish, son of Maachah, king of Gath: and they will announce to Shimci, saying, Behold, thy servants in Gath. <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>And Shimei will rise and saddle his ass, and go to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei will go and bring his servants from Gath. <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And it will be announced to Solomon that Shimei went from Jerusalem to Gath, and he will turn back. <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>And the king will send and call for Shimei, and say to him, Did not I cause thee to swear by Jehovah, and attest to thee, saying, In the day of thy going forth, and thou wentest whither and whither, knowing, thou shalt know that dying, thou shalt die? and thou wilt say to me, Good the word I heard. <A name="44"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And wherefore didst thou not watch the oath of Jehovah, and the command which I commanded upon thee? <A name="45"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>And the king will say to Shimei, Thou knewest all the evil which thy heart knew, which thou didst to David my father: and Jehovah turned back thy evil upon thy head. <A name="46"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>And blessed be kind Solomon, and the throne of David shall be prepared before Jehovah, even forever. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/2-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>And the king will command Benaiah son of Jehoida, and he will go forth and will strike upon him, and he will die. 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