Douay Rheims Original ↷
1 Kings 2 📜 📕 ↷
23 Therefore king Salomon sware by our Lord, saying: These things do God to me, & these add he, because Adonias hath spoken this word against his life.📜💬📚
24 And now, our Lord liveth which hath established me, & placed me upon the throne of David my father, and which hath made me a house, as he spake, this day shall Adonias be slain.📜💬📚
25 And king Salomon sent by the hand of Banaias the son of Joiada, who slew him, & he died.📜💬📚
26 To Abiathar also the priest the king said: Go into Anathoth to thy field, and thou indeed art a man of death: but to day I will not kill thee, because thou didst carry the ark of our Lord God before David my father, & hast sustained labour in all things, wherein my father laboured.📜💬📚
27 Salomon therefore cast out Abiathar, that he should not be the priest of our Lord, that the word of our Lord might be fulfilled, which he spake concerning the house of Heli in Silo.📜💬📚
Execution of Joab
28 And then a messenger came to Joab, for that Joab had turned after Adonias, and after Salomon had not turned: Joab therefore fled into the tabernacle of our Lord, & caught the horn of the altar.📜💬📚
29 And it was told king Salomon, that Joab was fled into the tabernacle of our Lord, and was beside the altar: and Salomon sent Banaias the son of Joiada, saying: Go, kill him📜💬📚
30 And Banaias came to the tabernacle of our Lord, and said to him: Thus saith the king: Come forth. Who said: I will not come forth, but here will I die. Banaias reported his word to the king, saying: Thus spake Joab, and thus he answered me.📜💬📚
31 And the king said to him: Do as he hath spoken: and kill him, and bury him, and thou shalt remove the innocent blood, which hath been shed of Joab, from me, and from the house of my father.📜💬📚
32 And our Lord shall render his blood upon his head, because he murdered two just men, and better than himself: and slew them with his sword, my father David not knowing, Abner the son of Ner, general of the warfare of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether general of the army of Juda:📜💬📚
33 and their blood shall return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever. But to David & his seed & his house, & to his throne be peace for ever from our Lord.📜💬📚
34 Banaias therefore the son of Joiada went up, and setting upon him slew him: and he was buried in his house in the desert.📜💬📚
35 And the king appointed Banaias the son of Joiada for him over the army, and Sadoc the priest he placed for Abiathar.📜💬📚
Execution of Shimei
36 The king also sent, and called Semei, and said to him: Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there: and thou shalt not go out thence hither and thither.📜💬📚
37 But what day soever thou shalt go out, and shalt pass the Torrent Cedron, know that thou art to be slain: thy blood shall be upon thy head.📜💬📚
38 And Semei said to the king: The saying is good: as my lord the king hath spoken, so will thy servant do. Semei therefore dwelt in Jerusalem many days.📜💬📚
39 And it came to pass after three years, that the servants of Semei fled to Achis the son of Maacha the king of Geth: and it was told Semei that his servants were gone into Geth.📜💬📚
40 And Semei arose, and saddled his ass, & went to Achis into Geth to require his servants, & he brought them out of Geth.📜💬📚
41 And it was told Salomon that Semei went into Geth out of Jerusalem, & was returned.📜💬📚
42 And sending he called him, & said to him: Did I not testify to thee by our Lord, & told thee before: What day soever thou going out shalt pass hither and thither, know that thou shalt die? And thou didst answer me: The saying is good, which I have heard.📜💬📚
43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of our Lord, and the precept that I commanded thee?📜💬📚
44 And the king said to Semei: Thou knowest all the evil, whereof thy heart is privy to thy self, which thou didst to David my father: our Lord hath rendered thy malice upon thy head.📜💬📚
45 And king Salomon be blessed, and the throne of David shall be stable before our Lord for ever.📜💬📚
46 The king therefore commanded Banaias the son of Joiada: who going out, struck him, and he died.📜💬📚
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