1 Kings 2:37

For it shall be, [that] on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.

For it shall be, that on the day {H3117} thou goest out {H3318}, and passest over {H5674} the brook {H5158} Kidron {H6939}, thou shalt know {H3045} for certain {H3045} that thou shalt surely {H4191} die {H4191}: thy blood {H1818} shall be upon thine own head {H7218}.

Know for a fact that on the day you go out and cross Vadi Kidron, you will certainly die; your blood will be on your own head."

On the day you go out and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will die; your blood will be on your own head.”

For on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, know thou for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.

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Cross-References

  • 2 Samuel 1:16 (6 votes)

    And David said unto him, Thy blood [be] upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.

  • 2 Samuel 15:23 (5 votes)

    And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

  • Joshua 2:19 (4 votes)

    And it shall be, [that] whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood [shall be] upon his head, and we [will be] guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood [shall be] on our head, if [any] hand be upon him.

  • Ezekiel 18:13 (3 votes)

    Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

  • Leviticus 20:9 (3 votes)

    For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood [shall be] upon him.

  • 2 Kings 23:6 (3 votes)

    And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped [it] small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

  • John 18:1 (3 votes)

    ¶ When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.