Cross references

1 Kings 2:25

So King Solomon gave orders to Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he struck down Adonijah and he died.

1 Kings 2:25 BSB

1 Kings 2:25 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 0 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 2 Samuel 8:18 (3 votes) and Judges 8:20–21 (2 votes). 16 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Judges 8 to Hebrews 12.

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  1. Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priestly leaders.

  2. So he said to Jether, his firstborn, “Get up and kill them.” But the young man did not draw his sword; he was fearful because he was still a youth. Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Get up and kill us yourself, for as the man is, so is his strength.” So Gideon got up and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments from the necks of their camels.

  3. But Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.

  4. Then David summoned one of the young men and said, “Go, execute him!” So the young man struck him down, and he died.

  5. So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.

  6. And the king replied, “Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood that Joab shed.

  7. So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, struck down Joab, and killed him. He was buried at his own home in the wilderness.

  8. Then the king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck Shimei down, and he died. Thus the kingdom was firmly established in the hand of Solomon.

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