1 Kings 2:37
2:37 If you ever do leave and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will certainly die! You will be responsible for your own death.”
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1 Kings 1:11
1:11 Nathan said to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, “Has it been reported to you 2 that Haggith’s son Adonijah has become king behind our master David’s back? 3
1 Kings 2:42
2:42 the king summoned
4 Shimei and said to him, “You will recall
5 that I made you take an oath by the
Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere,
6 know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’
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1 Kings 2:44
2:44 Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David.
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Lord will punish you for what you did.
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1 Kings 5:6
5:6 So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians.”
1 Kings 2:32
2:32 May the
Lord punish him for the blood he shed;
10 behind my father David’s back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he
11 – Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
1 tn Heb “your blood will be upon your head.”
2 tn Heb “Have you not heard?”
3 tn Heb “and our master David does not know.”
3 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”
4 tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”
5 tn Heb “here or there.”
6 tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”
4 tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”
5 tn Heb “The Lord will cause your evil to return upon your head.”
5 tn Heb “The Lord will cause his blood to return upon his head.”
6 tn Heb “because he struck down two men more innocent and better than he and he killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know.”