1 Kings 2:44 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 2:44

The king also said, “You know in your heart all the evil that you did to my father David. Therefore the LORD will bring your evil back upon your head.

BSB

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ASV

The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thy heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore Jehovah shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head.

KJV

The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;

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Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

There was no need to examine witnesses for the proof of the fact, his own conscience was instead of a thousand witnesses. That wickedness which men's own hearts alone are privy to is enough, if duly considered, to fill them with confusion, in expectation of its return upon their own heads; for if the heart be privy to it, God is greater than the heart and knoweth all things.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
שִׁמְעִ֗י	shim.'I	Shimei	H8096 →
אַתָּ֤ה	'a.Tah	you	H859 →
יָדַ֙עְתָּ֙	ya.Da'.ta	you know	H3045 →
אֵ֣ת	'et	<obj.>	H853 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הָרָעָ֗ה	ha.ra.'Ah	the evil	H7451 →
אֲשֶׁ֤ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
יָדַע֙	ya.Da'	it knows	H3045 →
לְבָ֣בְךָ֔	le.Va.ve.kha	heart your	H3824 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
עָשִׂ֖יתָ	'a.Si.ta	you did	H6213 →
לְדָוִ֣ד	le.da.Vid	to David	H1732 →
אָבִ֑י	'a.Vi	father my	H1 →
וְהֵשִׁ֧יב	ve.he.Shiv	and he will return	H7725 →
יְהוָ֛ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
רָעָתְךָ֖	ra.'a.te.Kha	evil your	H7451 →
בְּרֹאשֶֽׁךָ׃	be.ro.She.kha	on head your	H7218 →

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The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 7:16
His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
leads to
- Esther 9:25
  But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his…
- Psalms 37:12–13
  The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
- 1 Kings 2:32
  The LORD will bring his bloodshed back upon his own head, for without the knowledge of my father David he struck down two men more righteous and better than he when he put to…
- Psalms 36:12
  There the evildoers lie fallen, thrown down and unable to rise.
- 1 Samuel 26:10
  David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
Through
Proverbs 5:22
The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
leads to
- Proverbs 11:5
  The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.
- Proverbs 1:31–32
  So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Through
1 Samuel 25:39
On hearing that Nabal was dead, David said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has upheld my cause against the reproach of Nabal and has restrained His servant from evil. For the LORD has brought…
leads to
- 1 Samuel 25:34
  Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal…