1 Re 2:30

La Riveduta Bibbia

Benaia entrò nel tabernacolo dell’Eterno, e disse a Joab: "Così dice il re: Vieni fuori!" Quegli rispose: "No! voglio morir qui!" E Benaia riferì la cosa al re, dicendo: "Così ha parlato Joab e così m’ha risposto".

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Cos Benaiah entr nel tabernacolo dellEterno e disse a Joab: "Cos dice il re: "Vieni fuori!"". Quegli rispose: "No, voglio morire qui!". Benaiah rifer la cosa al re, dicendo: "Cos ha parlato Joab e cos mi ha risposto".

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
E Benaia entr� nel Tabernacolo del Signore, e disse a Ioab: Cos� ha detto il re: Esci fuori. Ma egli rispose: No; anzi morr� qu�. E Benaia rapport� la cosa al re, dicendo: Cos� ha detto Ioab, e cos� mi ha risposto.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 11:22 - Benaiah

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the Lord,.... At Gibeon:

and said unto him; that is, to Joab:

thus saith the king, come forth; meaning, out of the tabernacle; which plainly shows that his orders were not to slay him in it:

and he said, nay, but I will die here; since he must die, he chose to die there; but what was his reason for it is not so clear; the Jews, some of them, say, to save his goods, and that they might come to his heirs, which would have been forfeited to the crown if he had been tried and condemned in a court of judicature; others, that he might be buried with his ancestors, whereas, had he been sentenced to death by the court, he would have been buried in the common place of malefactors; but rather he thought, or at least hoped, he should not die at all; either that, by gaining time, Solomon might be prevailed upon to pardon him; or however that he would not defile that sacred place with his blood; or, if he should die, he chose to die there, as being a sacred place, and so might hope to receive some benefit from it, as to his future state, where sacrifices were offered to atone for sin:

and Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, thus said Joab, and thus he answered me; told me he would not come out, and, if he must die, he would die there.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 2:30. Nay; but I will die here. — The altars were so sacred among all the people, that, in general, even the vilest wretch found safety, if he once reached the altar. This led to many abuses, and the perversion of public justice; and at last it became a maxim that the guilty should be punished, should they even have taken refuge at the altars. God decreed that the presumptuous murderer who had taken refuge at the altar should be dragged thence, and put to death; see Exodus 21:14. The heathens had the same kind of ordinance; hence Euripides: -

Εγω γαρ ὁστις μη δικαιος ων ανηρπ

Βωμον προσιζει, τον νομον χαιρειν εων,π

Προς την δικην αγοιμ ' αν, αυ τρεσας θεους·

Κακον γαρ ανδρα χρη κακως πασχειν αει.

EURIPID. Frag. 42. Edit. Musg.

"If an unrighteous man, availing himself of the law, should claim the protection of the altar, I would drag him to justice, nor fear the wrath of the gods; for it is necessary that every wicked man should suffer for his crimes."