1st Kings Chapter 2 verse 6 Holy Bible

ASV 1stKings 2:6

Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to Sheol in peace.
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BBE 1stKings 2:6

So be guided by your wisdom, and let not his white head go down to the underworld in peace.
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DARBY 1stKings 2:6

And thou shalt do according to thy wisdom, and not let his hoar head go down to Sheol in peace.
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KJV 1stKings 2:6

Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
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WBT 1stKings 2:6

Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoary head go down to the grave in peace.
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WEB 1stKings 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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YLT 1stKings 2:6

and thou hast done according to thy wisdom, and dost not let his old age go down in peace to Sheol.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - Do therefore according to thy wisdom [cf. Proverbs 20:26. It needed great discretion in exacting the punishment of death in the case of one who was so powerful, who had such influence with the army and the people, whose crimes had been passed over for so long a time, to whom David was so much indebted - Joab had partly won and had twice preserved for him his crown - and to whom he was allied by ties of blood. To act precipitately or unwisely might provoke a revolution], and let not his hoar head [see on ver. 9. Joab, though David's nephew, could not have been much his junior, and David was now seventy] go down to the grave in peace. [He must die a violent, not a natural death, as Corn. a Lap. This expression, no doubt, looks vindictive, but that is solely because we forget the character of the Old Testament dispensation (as one of temporal rewards and punishments. See the "Expositor," vol. 3. p. 114), the position of David as king (as the authorized dispenser of punishments, and as responsible to God for dispensing them without fear or favour), and the principles of the Mosaic code (as a lex talionis, demanding blood for blood, and requiring the magistrates and people to purge themselves of the guilt of blood by demanding "the blood of him that shed it"). Let these considerations be borne in mind, and there is absolutely no warrant for charging David with malevolence. Wordsworth lays stress on the fact that Joab had not repented of his crimes. But we need have recourse to no such suppositions. The Jewish law afforded no place of repentance to the murderer. No amount of contrition would cleanse the land of blood. The temporal penalty must be paid. In the case of David himself, it was only commuted by special revelation (2 Samuel 12:10, 13, 14), not remitted.

Ellicott's Commentary