³⁶Then the king sent and summoned Shimei, and he said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there, but you must not go out anywhere whatsoever^m from there. ³⁷It shall happen that on the day you go out and cross over the Wadiⁿ Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die.^o Your blood will be on your head.” ³⁸Shimei said to the king, “The word is good that my lord the king has spoken to me; thus will your servant do.” So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.

³⁹It happened that at the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves fled to Achish, son of Maacah, the king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, “Your slaves are here in Gath.” ⁴⁰So Shimei got up and saddled his donkey, and he went to Gath, to Achish, to search for his slaves. So Shimei went and brought his slaves from Gath. ⁴¹When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had returned, ⁴²the king sent and summoned Shimei, and he said to him, “Did I not make you swear by Yahweh? I warned you, saying, ‘On the day you go out and you go anywhere whatsoever,^p know for certain that you will surely die.’^q And you said to me, ‘The word is good; I accept.’ ⁴³Why have you not kept the oath of Yahweh and the command which I commanded you?” ⁴⁴Then the king said to Shimei, “You know all the evil which your heart knows, what you did to David my father. Now Yahweh will return the evil on your head, ⁴⁵but King Solomon will be blessed and the throne of David will be established before Yahweh forever.” ⁴⁶Then the king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and fell upon him, and he died. So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

Read in Logos

Footnotes

mLiterally “where and where”
nA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season
oLiterally “dying you will die”
pLiterally “where and where”
qLiterally “dying you will die”