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1 Kings 2:2
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“As for me, I am going the way of all of the earth. Be strong and be a man,
I am going the way of all the eretz: be you strong therefore, and show yourself a man;
I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;
"I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man,
David said, "My time to die is near. Be a good and strong leader.
"I am about to die. Be strong and become a man!
"I am going the way of all the earth [as dust to dust]. Be strong and prove yourself a man.
"I am going the way of all the earth. So be strong, and prove yourself a man.
I go the way of all the earth: be strong therefore, and shew thy selfe a man,
"I am going the way of all the earth. So you shall be strong, and be a man.
My son, I will soon die, as everyone must. But I want you to be strong and brave.
"I am going the way of all the earth. Therefore, be strong; show yourself a man.
I go the way of all the earth: be of good courage therefore, and be a man;
"I am about to die, like all men must. But you are growing stronger and becoming a man.
I go the way of all the earth; be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;
"My time to die has come. Be confident and determined,
"I am about to go the way of all the world. Be strong and be courageous.
I am going in the way of all the earth. And you be strong, and be a man,
I go the waye of all the worlde, Be thou stroge therfore, and shewe thyselfe a man,
I am going the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man;
I am going the way of all the earth: so be strong and be a man;
I go the way of al the earth, be thou strong therfore, & shewe thy selfe a man.
'I go the way of all the earth; be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man;
I goe the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thy selfe a man.
but be thou strong, and shew thyself a man;
I go the way of all the earth: he thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;
"I am about to go the way of all of the earth. So be strong and prove yourself a man.
Y entre in to the weie of al erthe; be thou coumfortid, and be thou a strong man.
`I am going in the way of all the earth, and thou hast been strong, and become a man,
I am going the way of all the earth: be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;
I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man;
I am going the way of all the earth: be you strong therefore, and show yourself a man;
"I go the way of all the earth; be strong, therefore, and prove yourself a man.
"I am going where everyone on earth must someday go. Take courage and be a man.
"I am going the way of all the earth. So be strong. Show yourself to be a man.
I, am going the way of all the earth, - thou must be strong, therefore, and show thyself a man;
I am going the way of all flesh: take thou courage and shew thyself a man.
"I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man,
"I am going the way of all the earth. Be strong, therefore, and show yourself a man.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I go: Joshua 23:14, Job 16:22, Job 30:23, Psalms 89:48, Hebrews 9:27
be thou: Deuteronomy 17:19, Deuteronomy 17:20, Deuteronomy 31:6, Joshua 1:6, Joshua 1:7, 1 Chronicles 28:20, Ephesians 6:10, 2 Timothy 2:1
and show: 1 Kings 3:7, 2 Samuel 10:12, Ecclesiastes 12:13, 1 Corinthians 16:13, 1 Timothy 4:12
Reciprocal: Genesis 48:21 - Behold 1 Chronicles 28:7 - constant 1 Timothy 3:15 - know 2 Peter 1:14 - shortly
Cross-References
God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your donkey may have relief, and your homeborn slave and the resident alien may be refreshed.
It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed."
But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, or your son or your daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox or your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the resident alien in your towns, so that your male and female slave may rest as well as you.
If you refrain from trampling the sabbath, from pursuing your own interests on my holy day; if you call the sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, serving your own interests, or pursuing your own affairs;
But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, and I also am working."
For in one place it speaks about the seventh day as follows, "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I go the way of all the earth,.... A path which is the path of death o, which all pass in, kings and peasants, high and low, rich and poor, great and small, good and bad; none are exempted, all must die, and do; it is the appointment of God, a decree which can never be reversed; all experience confirms it: this same phrase is used by Joshua, from whom David seems to have borrowed it, and shows that that book was written in his days, Joshua 23:14;
be thou strong therefore; not discouraged at my death, being a common thing, and to be expected; nor at being left alone, the Lord can give thee wisdom and counsel, assistance and strength, protection, and defence; take heart therefore, and be of good courage:
and show thyself a man; in wisdom and understanding, and in fortitude of mind, though so young a man; which were necessary for the government of so great a people, and to guard against the secret intrigues of some, and the open flatteries of others, and the fear of attempts against his person and government, and the temptations he might be liable to, to do wrong things; and especially they were necessary to enable him to keep the commands of God, as follows; which required great strength of mind and of grace, considering the corruptions of nature, the temptations of Satan, and the snares of men; see Joshua 1:7.
o "------ omnes una manet nox, Et calcanda semel via lethi". Horat. Carmin. l. 1. ode 28. ver. 15, 16.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
David appears to have in his thoughts the divine address to Joshua. Without following it servilely, he reproduces several of its leading expressions and sentiments (compare the margin reference). Solomonâs youth clearly constituted one of the chief difficulties of his position. If he was about nineteen or twenty, and known to be of a pacific disposition 1 Chronicles 22:9, then to have to rule over the warlike and turbulent Hebrew nation, with a strong party opposed to him, and brothers of full age ready to lead it, was evidently a most difficult task. Hence, he is exhorted, though in years a boy, to show himself in Spirit âa man.â
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Kings 2:2. I go the way of all the earth — I am dying. All the inhabitants of the earth must come to the dust. In life, some follow one occupation, some another; but all must, sooner or later, come to the grave. Death is no respecter of persons; he visits the palace of the king as well as the cottage of the peasant.
Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas,
Regumque turres.
- HOR. Odar. lib. i., od. iv., ver. 13.
"With equal pace, impartial fate
Knocks at the palace as the cottage gate."
FRANCIS.
_________ Sed omnes una manet nox,
Et calcanda semel via lethi.
- Ib. od. xxviii., ver. 15.
"One dreary night for all mankind remains,
And once we all must tread the shadowy plains."
Ibid.
There is no respect to age or youth more than to station or external circumstance: -
Mixta senum ac juvenum densantur funera: nullum
Saeva caput Proserpina fugit.
- Ib. od. xxviii., ver. 19.
Thus age and youth promiscuous crowd the tomb;
No mortal head can shun the impending doom."
Ibid.
And it is not merely man that is subjected to this necessity; all that have in them the breath of life must lose it; it is the way of all the earth, both of men and inferior animals.
__________ Terrestria quando
Mortales animas vivunt sortita, neque ulla est
Aut parvo aut magno lethi fuga.
Vive memor quam sis aevi brevis.
HOR. Sat. l. ii., s. vi., ver. 93.
"All that tread the earth are subject to mortality; neither great nor small can avoid death. Live therefore conscious that your time is short."
It is painful to the pride of the great and mighty that, however decorated their tombs may be, they must undergo the same dissolution and corruption with the vulgar dead; for the grave is the house appointed for all living: man is born to die.
Omnium idem exitus est, sed et idem domicilium.
"For all have the same end, and are huddled together in the same narrow house."
Here emperors, kings, statesmen, warriors, heroes, and butchers of all kinds, with peasants and beggars, meet; however various their routes, they terminate in the same point. This and all other kindred sentiments on the subject are well expressed in that excellent little poem of Mr. Blair, entitled THE GRAVE, which opens with the following lines: -
While some affect the sun, and some the shade;
Some flee the city, some the hermitage;
Their aims as various as the roads they take
In journeying through life; the task be mine
To paint the gloomy horrors of the tomb,
The appointed place of rendezvous, where all
These travellers meet.
Show thyself a man — Act like a rational being, and not like a brute; and remember, that he acts most like a man who is most devoted to his GOD.
