1 Kings 2:43
Good News Translation
Why, then, have you broken your promise and disobeyed my command?

New Revised Standard Version
Why then have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the commandment with which I charged you?”

Contemporary English Version
You have disobeyed me and have broken the promise you made to the LORD.

New American Bible
Why, then, have you not kept the oath of the LORD and the command that I gave you?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I laid upon thee?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I laid upon thee?

Why

2 Samuel 21:2 Then the king, calling for the Gabaonites, said to them: (Now the Gabaonites were not of the children of Israel, but the remains of the Amorrhites: and the children of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul sought to slay them out of zeal, as it were for the children of Israel and Juda:)

Ezekiel 17:18,19 For he had despised the oath, breaking his covenant, and behold he hath given his hand: and having done all these things, he shall not escape. . . .

commandment

2 Chronicles 30:12 But the hand of God was in Juda, to give them one heart to do the word of the Lord, according to the commandment of the king, and of the princes.

Ecclesiastes 8:2 I observe the mouth of the king, and the commandments of the oath of God.

Romans 13:5 Wherefore be subject of necessity: not only for wrath, but also for conscience' sake.

Context
The Execution of Shimei
42And sending he called for him, and said to him: Did I not protest to thee by the Lord, and tell thee before: On what day soever thou shalt go out and walk abroad any where, know that thou shalt die? And thou answeredst me: The word that I have heard is good. 43Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I laid upon thee?44And the king said to Semei: Thou knowest all the evil, of which thy heart is conscious, which thou didst to David, my father: the Lord hath returned thy wickedness upon thy own head.…
Cross References
1 Kings 2:42
And sending he called for him, and said to him: Did I not protest to thee by the Lord, and tell thee before: On what day soever thou shalt go out and walk abroad any where, know that thou shalt die? And thou answeredst me: The word that I have heard is good.

1 Kings 2:44
And the king said to Semei: Thou knowest all the evil, of which thy heart is conscious, which thou didst to David, my father: the Lord hath returned thy wickedness upon thy own head.

1 Kings 2:42
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