1 Kings 2:43

Christian Standard Bible ®

So why have you not kept the Lord’s oath and the command that I gave you?”

Parallel Translations

Update Bible Version
Why then haven't you kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment that I have charged you with?

New Living Translation
Then why haven't you kept your oath to the Lord and obeyed my command?"

English Revised Version
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?

New Century Version
Why did you break your promise to the Lord and disobey my command?"

New English Translation
Why then have you broken the oath you made before the Lord and disobeyed the order I gave you?"

Webster's Bible Translation
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?

World English Bible
Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment that I have charged you with?

Amplified Bible
"Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD, and the command which I gave you?"

English Standard Version
Why then have you not kept your oath to the Lord and the commandment with which I commanded you?"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whi therfor keptist thou not the ooth of the Lord, and the comaundement which Y comaundide to thee?

Berean Standard Bible
So why have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the command that I gave you?"

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

American Standard Version
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of Jehovah, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?

Bible in Basic English
Why then have you not kept the oath of the Lord and the order which I gave you?

Complete Jewish Bible
Why, then, haven't you kept the oath of Adonai and the mitzvah I charged you with?"

Darby Translation
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of Jehovah, and the commandment that I charged thee with?

Easy-to-Read Version
So why didn't you obey me? Why did you break your promise to the Lord ?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?'

King James Version (1611)
Why then hast thou not kept the Oath of the Lord, and the commandement that I haue charged thee with?

New Life Bible
Then why have you not kept the promise of the Lord? Why have you not done what I told you?"

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
Why then hast thou not kept the othe of the Lorde, and the commandement wherewith I charged thee?

George Lamsa Translation
Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD and the commandment that I have charged you with?

Good News Translation
Why, then, have you broken your promise and disobeyed my command?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Why then, hast thou not kept the oath of Yahweh, - and the charge which I laid upon thee?

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

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

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Why then hast thou not kept the oth of the Lorde, and the commaundement that I charged thee withall?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And why hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment which I commanded thee?

Hebrew Names Version
Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD, and the mitzvah that I have charged you with?

King James Version
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord , and the commandment that I have charged thee with?

Lexham English Bible
Why have you not kept the oath of Yahweh and the command which I commanded you?"

Literal Translation
And why have you not kept the oath of Jehovah, and the charge that I commanded you?

Young's Literal Translation
and wherefore hast thou not kept the oath of Jehovah, and the charge that I charged upon thee?'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Why hast thou not kepte the then acordinge to the ooth of the LORDE, and commaundement that I commaunded the?

New American Standard Bible
"Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD, and the command which I imposed on you?"

New King James Version
Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD and the commandment that I gave you?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD, and the command which I have laid on you?"

Legacy Standard Bible
Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the command which I have commanded you?"

Contextual Overview

³⁵Then the king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada in Joab’s place over the army, and he appointed the priest Zadok in Abiathar’s place. ³⁶Then the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Build a house for yourself in Jerusalem and live there, but don’t leave there and go anywhere else. ³⁷On the day you do leave and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will certainly die. Your blood will be on your own head.” ³⁸Shimei said to the king, “The sentence is fair; your servant will do as my lord the king has spoken.” And Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time. ³⁹But then, at the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath. Shimei was informed, “Look, your slaves are in Gath.” ⁴⁰So Shimei saddled his donkey and set out to Achish at Gath to search for his slaves. He went and brought them back from Gath. ⁴¹It was reported to Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had returned. ⁴²So the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Didn’t I make you swear by the Lord and warn you, saying, ‘On the day you leave and go anywhere else, know for sure that you will certainly die’? And you said to me, ‘The sentence is fair; I will obey.’ ⁴³So why have you not kept the Lord’s oath and the command that I gave you?” ⁴⁴The king also said, “You yourself know all the evil that you did to my father David. Therefore, the Lord has brought back your evil on your head,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Why: 2 Samuel 21:2, Ezekiel 17:18, Ezekiel 17:19

commandment: 2 Chronicles 30:12, Ecclesiastes 8:2, Romans 13:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:11 - an oath of the Lord

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord,.... Which was made by him, and in his presence, and in which he was appealed to, and so by not keeping it was guilty of perjury:

and the commandment that I have charged thee with? and so guilty of disobedience to him as his sovereign; for which two reasons he ought to die.