2Ki 11:8 Cross References
2 Kings 11:8
8: Form a bodyguard for the king and keep your weapons in hand. Any unauthorized person who approaches you must be killed. Stay right beside the king at all times."
2 Chronicles 23:7
- You Levites, form a bodyguard for the king and keep your weapons in hand. Any unauthorized person who enters the Temple must be killed. Stay right beside the king at all times."
Numbers 27:17
- Give them someone who will lead them into battle, so the people of the LORD will not be like sheep without a shepherd."
1 Kings 2:28
- Although he had not followed Absalom earlier, Joab had also joined Adonijah's revolt. When Joab heard about Adonijah's death, he ran to the sacred tent of the LORD and caught hold of the horns of the altar.
- When news of this reached King Solomon, he sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada to execute him.
- Benaiah went into the sacred tent of the LORD and said to Joab, "The king orders you to come out!" But Joab answered, "No, I will die here." So Benaiah returned to the king and told him what Joab had said.
- "Do as he said," the king replied. "Kill him there beside the altar and bury him. This will remove the guilt of his senseless murders from me and from my father's family.
2 Kings 11:15
- Then Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders who were in charge of the troops, "Take her out of the Temple, and kill anyone who tries to rescue her. Do not kill her here in the Temple of the LORD."
Exodus 21:14
- However, if someone deliberately attacks and kills another person, then the slayer must be dragged even from my altar and put to death.