1 Kings 2:42

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Didn't I adjure you by Yahweh, and protest to you, saying, Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk abroad any where, you shall surely die? and you said to me, The saying that I have heard is good.

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אָ֣נֶה

ʼân

H575

“where”

Adverb

Appears 43× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 16:8

Full BDB Definition

Origin: contracted from H370

TWOT: 75g

where?, whither? (of place) - when?, until when?, how long? (of time)

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

27: words
20: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אָ֣נֶה where H575 occurs in 33 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

14 verbs
5 nouns
1 adjective
3 prepositions
1 conjunction
1 adverb
2 particles

Verb forms

וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיִּקְרָ֣א Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
הִשְׁבַּעְתִּ֣יךָ Hiphil · Perfect
וָאָעִ֤ד Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
לֵאמֹ֔ר Qal · Infinitive Construct
צֵאתְךָ֗ Qal · Infinitive Construct
וְהָֽלַכְתָּ֙ Qal · Sequential Perfect
יָדֹ֥עַ Qal · Infinitive Absolute
תֵּדַ֖ע Qal · Imperfect
מ֣וֹת Qal · Infinitive Absolute
תָּמ֑וּת Qal · Imperfect
וַתֹּ֧אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
שָׁמָֽעְתִּי Qal · Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר to say H559 ×3
אָ֣נֶה where H575 ×2
יָדֹ֥עַ to know H3045 ×2
מ֣וֹת to die H4191 ×2
אֵלָ֜יו to H413 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In the original languages it is 27 Hebrew tokens and 41 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 1 Kings 2:42 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

1 Kings 2:36–38 The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and don't go forth from there any where.
Psalms 15:4 In whose eyes a vile man is despised, But who honors those who fear Yahweh; He who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn't change;
Luke 15:22 "But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.
Luke 19:22 "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew 1 Kings 2:42 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ וַיִּקְרָ֣א לְשִׁמְעִ֗י וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֵלָ֜יו הֲל֧וֹא הִשְׁבַּעְתִּ֣יךָ בַֽיהוָ֗ה וָאָעִ֤ד בְּךָ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר בְּי֣וֹם צֵאתְךָ֗ וְהָֽלַכְתָּ֙ אָ֣נֶה וָאָ֔נָה יָדֹ֥עַ תֵּדַ֖ע כִּ֣י מ֣וֹת תָּמ֑וּת וַתֹּ֧אמֶר אֵלַ֛י ט֥וֹב הַדָּבָ֖ר שָׁמָֽעְתִּי

The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Didn't I adjure you by Yahweh, and protest to you, saying, Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk abroad any where, you shall surely die? and you said to me, The saying that I have heard is good.

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Greek LXX 1 Kings 2:42 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀποστέλλω ὁ βασιλεύς καί καλέω ὁ σεμεϊ καί εἶπον πρός αὐτός οὐ ὁρκίζω σύ κατά ὁ κύριος καί ἐπιμαρτυρέω σύ λέγω ἐν ὅς ἄν ἡμέρα ἐκἔρχομαι ἐκ ἰερουσαλήμ καί πορεύομαι εἰς δεξιός ἤ εἰς ἀριστερός γιγνώσκω γιγνώσκω ὅτι θάνατος ἀποθνήσκω

No English rendering of this Greek verse — the small residue in the structurally divergent books.

On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from a public-domain English Septuagint. How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וּשְׁלַח מַלְכָּא וּקְרָא לְשִׁמְעִי וַאֲמַר לֵיהּ הֲלָא קַיֵמִית עֲלָךְ בְּמֵימְרָא דַייָ וְאַסְהֵדִית בָּךְ לְמֵימָר בְּיוֹם מִפְקָךְ וּתְהָךְ לְכָא וּלְכָא מִידַע תִּידַע אֲרֵי מֵימַת תְּמוּת וַאֲמַרְתְּ לִי תַּקֵין פִּתְגָמָא שְׁמָעִית:

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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on 1 Kings 2:42 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ki 2:42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word [that] I have heard [is] good.

Ver. 42. Did not I make thee to swear.] Oρκος quasi ιρκος, oaths should bind to good abearance: but some can play with them as apes do with nuts, or monkeys with their collars, which they slip on and off again at pleasure.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

42. Did I not make thee to swear by the Lord] There is no mention of an oath in the previous part of the narrative (1Ki_2:37), but the solemnity of the charge was probably so enforced. The LXX, making both portions of the story to correspond, inserts in 1Ki_2:37 ‘and the king made him to swear in that day.’

The word that I have heard] ‘The saying &c.’ as in 1Ki_2:38. The same Hebrew will thus have the same English.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

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.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Did I not make thee to swear - The Septuagint add to 1Ki 2:37 a clause stating that Solomon “made Shimei swear” on the day when he commanded him to reside at Jerusalem.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

And the king sent and called for Shimel, and said unto him, Did I not make thee swear by the Lord it thus comes out quite incidentally that Solomon had bound Shimei by an oath. The LXX: embodies this information as a direct statement in the text of ver. 37, kai wrkisen aujton oJ basileura ejkeinh, but it is obviously a gloss and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day that thou goest but and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good. The LXX (Vat.) omits "And thou saidst," etc. This last sentence has been punctuated thus: "Good is the word. I have heard." Probably rva "which," is to be understood.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

And forewarned you. An expression referring to a [legal] warning.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 27 words (20 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼân (“where”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word ʼân carries the sense “where.” How does it shape the verse?
How does Genesis 16:8, which shares the word «where», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “to say” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
«וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 27 Hebrew ↔ 41 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 28 words in this verse.
“to say” occurs 3× in this single verse.
20 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 27 words in this verse.