1 Kings 2:36–46

³⁶And the king sent and called for ^hShimei, and said unto him, Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither. ³⁷For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over ⁱthe brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: ^jthy blood shall be upon thine own head. ³⁸And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days. ³⁹And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto ^kAchish son of Maachah king of ^lGath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath. ⁴⁰And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath. ⁴¹And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again. ⁴²And 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. ⁴³Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I have charged thee with? ⁴⁴The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest ^mall the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the Lord shall ⁿreturn thy wickedness upon thine own head; ⁴⁵and king Solomon shall be blessed, and ^othe throne of David shall be established before the Lord for ever. ⁴⁶So the king commanded ^dBenaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the ^pkingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

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