1 Kings 2:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, went up, and falling on him, put him to death; and his body was put to rest in his house in the waste land.

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  • Josh 15:61 : 61 In the waste land, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah;
  • 1 Kgs 2:25 : 25 And King Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and he made an attack on him and put him to death.
  • Matt 3:1 : 1 And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea,
  • 1 Kgs 2:31 : 31 And the king said, Do as he has said and make an attack on him there, and put his body into the earth; so that you may take away from me and from my family the blood of one put to death by Joab without cause.
  • 1 Kgs 2:46 : 46 So the king gave orders to Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada; and he went out and, falling on him, put him to death. And Solomon's authority over the kingdom was complete.
  • 2 Kgs 21:18 : 18 So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son became king in his place.
  • 2 Chr 33:20 : 20 So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body to rest in his house, and Amon his son became king in his place.

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  • 1 Kgs 2:24-25
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    24 Now by the living Lord, who has given me my place on the seat of David my father, and made me one of a line of kings, as he gave me his word, truly Adonijah will be put to death this day.

    25 And King Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and he made an attack on him and put him to death.

  • 1 Kgs 2:29-33
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    29 And they said to King Solomon, Joab has gone in flight to the Tent of the Lord and is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, make an attack on him.

    30 And Benaiah came to the Tent of the Lord and said to him, The king says, Come out. And he said, No; but let death come to me here. And Benaiah went back to the king and gave him word of the answer which Joab had given.

    31 And the king said, Do as he has said and make an attack on him there, and put his body into the earth; so that you may take away from me and from my family the blood of one put to death by Joab without cause.

    32 And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

    33 So their blood will be on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed for ever; but for David and his seed and his family and the seat of his kingdom, there will be peace for ever from the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 2:46
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    46 So the king gave orders to Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada; and he went out and, falling on him, put him to death. And Solomon's authority over the kingdom was complete.

  • 1 Kgs 2:35
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    35 And the king put Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, in his place over the army; and Zadok the priest he put in the place of Abiathar.

  • 2 Sam 1:15-16
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    15 And David sent for one of his young men and said, Go near and put an end to him. And he put him to death.

    16 And David said to him, May your blood be on your head; for your mouth has given witness against you, saying, I have put to death the man marked with the holy oil.

  • 2 Kgs 12:21
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    21 And Jozacar, the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of Shomer, his servants, came to him and put him to death; and they put him into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Amaziah his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Sam 3:30
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    30 So Joab and Abishai his brother put Abner to death, because he had put to death their brother Asahel in the fight at Gibeon.

  • 2 Chr 24:25
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    25 And when they had gone away from him, (for he was broken with disease,) his servants made a secret design against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they put him to death on his bed; and they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.

  • 2 Sam 4:7-8
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    7 And when they came into the house, Ish-bosheth was stretched on his bed in his bedroom; and they made an attack on him and put him to death, and, cutting off his head, they took it with them and went by the road through the Arabah all night.

    8 And they took the head of Ish-bosheth to David in Hebron, and said to the king, Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul your hater, who would have taken your life; the Lord has taken payment for the wrongs of my lord the king from Saul and his seed today.

  • 1 Chr 11:22-24
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    22 Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, a fighting-man of Kabzeel, had done great acts; he put to death two young lions going into their secret place; and he went down into a hole and put a lion to death in time of snow.

    23 And he made an attack on an Egyptian, a very tall man about five cubits high, armed with a spear like a cloth-worker's rod; he went down to him with a stick, and pulling his spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, put him to death with that same spear.

    24 These were the acts of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, who had a great name among the thirty men of war.

  • 1 Sam 26:10
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    10 And David said, By the living Lord, the Lord will send destruction on him; the natural day of his death will come, or he will go into the fight and come to his end.

  • 2 Sam 23:20-22
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    20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a fighting man of Kabzeel, had done great acts; he put to death the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down into a hole and put a lion to death in time of snow:

    21 And he made an attack on an Egyptian, a tall man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a stick, and pulling the spear out of the hands of the Egyptian, put him to death with that same spear.

    22 These were the acts of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, who had a great name among the thirty men of war.

  • 2 Chr 24:16
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    16 And they put him into his last resting-place in the town of David, among the kings, because he had done good in Israel for God and for his house.

  • 2 Sam 4:11-12
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    11 How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?

    12 And David gave orders to his young men and they put them to death, cutting off their hands and their feet and hanging them up by the side of the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and put it in its last resting-place with Abner's body in Hebron.

  • 1 Chr 27:34
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    34 After Ahithophel was Jehoiada, the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar; and the captain of the king's army was Joab.

  • 2 Sam 1:10
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    10 So I put my foot on him and gave him his death-blow, because I was certain that he would not go on living after his fall: and I took the crown from his head and the band from his arm, and I have them here for my lord.

  • 2 Sam 3:26-27
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    26 And when Joab had come out from David, he sent men after Abner, and they overtook him at the water-spring of Sirah, and made him come back with them: but David had no knowledge of it.

    27 And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel.

  • 2 Sam 16:9
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    9 Then Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, said to the king, Is this dead dog to go on cursing my lord the king? let me go over and take off his head.

  • 1 Kgs 2:10
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    10 Then David went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David.

  • 2 Kgs 14:5
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    5 Now when he became strong in the kingdom, straight away he put to death those servants who had taken the life of the king his father;

  • 1 Kgs 2:5-6
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    5 Now you have knowledge of what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, did to me, and to the two captains of the army of Israel, Abner, the son of Ner, and Amasa, the son of Jether, whom he put to death, taking payment for the blood of war in time of peace, and making the band of my clothing and the shoes on my feet red with the blood of one put to death without cause.

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

  • 1 Kgs 2:8
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    8 Now you have with you Shimei, the son of Gera the Benjamite of Bahurim, who put a bitter curse on me on the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to see me at Jordan, and I gave him my oath by the Lord, saying, I will not put you to death by the sword.

  • 1 Chr 20:7
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    7 And when he put shame on Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimea, David's brother, put him to death.

  • 1 Kgs 4:4
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    4 Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was head of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

  • 2 Kgs 11:16
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    16 So they put their hands on her, and she went to the king's house by the doorway of the horses, and there she was put to death.

  • 2 Sam 20:23
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    23 Now Joab was over all the army; and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was at the head of the Cherethites and the Pelethites;

  • 2 Chr 23:15
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    15 So they put their hands on her, and she went to the king's house by the doorway of the king's horses; and there she was put to death.

  • 1 Chr 18:17
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    17 And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief of those whose places were at the king's side.

  • 1 Kgs 1:32
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    32 And King David said, Send for Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
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    15 And when David had sent destruction on Edom, and Joab, the captain of the army, had gone to put the dead into the earth, and had put to death every male in Edom;

  • 2 Sam 21:21
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    21 And when he was purposing to put shame on Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimei, David's brother, put him to death.

  • 2 Sam 20:10
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    10 But Amasa did not see danger from the sword which was now in Joab's left hand, and Joab put it through his stomach so that his inside came out on to the earth, and he did not give him another blow. So Joab and his brother Abishai went on after Sheba, the son of Bichri.

  • 2 Chr 25:3
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    3 Now when he became strong in the kingdom, he put to death those men who had taken the life of the king his father.

  • 2 Sam 18:14-15
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    14 Then Joab said, I would have made it safe for you. And he took three spears in his hand, and put them through Absalom's heart, while he was still living, in the branches of the tree.

    15 And ten young men, servants of Joab, came round Absalom and put an end to him.

  • 1 Kgs 22:37
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    37 And they came to Samaria, and put the king's body to rest in Samaria.