1 Kings 2:6

The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’

“ ‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.

If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”

But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”

Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.

God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together.

He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”

A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

I said to myself, “Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”

Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh’s majesty.

They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”

You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.

Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!” Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.

For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around.

All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.

Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, “Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion.”

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.

So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses’ entry to the king’s house, and she was slain there.

It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.

Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.

Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”

I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

They have set her a bed among the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put among those who are slain.

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

“Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’

The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.

“ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.

All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

As soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, he killed his servants who had slain the king his father,

‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’ ” ’ ” So they brought this message back to the king.

Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.

and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.

A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

“There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”

He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

“There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.”

“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.