2 Kings 11:8
Good News Translation
You are to guard King Joash with drawn swords and stay with him wherever he goes. Anyone who comes near you is to be killed."

New Revised Standard Version
shall surround the king, each with weapons in hand; and whoever approaches the ranks is to be killed. Be with the king in his comings and goings.”

Contemporary English Version
Make sure they follow him wherever he goes, and tell them to keep their swords ready to kill anyone who tries to get near him.

New American Bible
You shall surround the king, each with drawn weapons, and anyone who tries to approach the guard detail is to be killed; stay with the king, wherever he goes.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall compass him round about, having weapons in your hands: and if any man shall enter the precinct of the temple, let him be slain: and you shall be with the king, coming in and going out.

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And you shall compass him round about, having weapons in your hands: and if any man shall enter the precinct of the temple, let him be slain: and you shall be with the king, coming in and going out.

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2 Kings 11:15 But Joiada commanded the centurions that were over the army, and said to them: Have her forth without the precinct of the temple, and whosoever shall follow her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest had said: Let her not be slain in the temple of the Lord.

Exodus 21:14 If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose, and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar that he may die.

1 Kings 2:28-31 And the news came to Joab, because Joab had turned after Adonias, and had not turned after Solomon: and Joab fled into the tabernacle of the Lord, and took hold on the horn of the altar. . . .

2 Chronicles 23:7 And let the Levites be round about the king, every man with his arms; and if any other come into the temple, let him be slain; and let them be with the king, both coming in, and going out.

Context
Joash Anointed King in Judah
7But let two parts of you all that go forth on the sabbath, keep the watch of the house of the Lord about the king. 8And you shall compass him round about, having weapons in your hands: and if any man shall enter the precinct of the temple, let him be slain: and you shall be with the king, coming in and going out.9And the centurions did according to all things that Joiada the priest, had commanded them: and taking every one their men, that went in on the sabbath, with them that went out in the sabbath, came to Joiada, the priest.…
Cross References
Numbers 27:16
May the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh provide a man, that may be over this multitude:

Numbers 27:17
And may go out and in before them, and may lead them out, or bring them in: lest the people of the Lord be as sheep without a shepherd.

2 Kings 11:7
But let two parts of you all that go forth on the sabbath, keep the watch of the house of the Lord about the king.

2 Kings 11:7
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