1 Kings 2:41-46
2:41 When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had then returned,
2:42 the king summoned
1 Shimei and said to him, “You will recall
2 that I made you take an oath by the
Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere,
3 know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’
4
2:43 Why then have you broken the oath you made before the
Lord and disobeyed the order I gave you?”
5
2:44 Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David.
6 The
Lord will punish you for what you did.
7
2:45 But King Solomon will be empowered
8 and David’s dynasty
9 will endure permanently before the
Lord.”
2:46 The king then gave the order to Benaiah son of Jehoiada who went and executed Shimei.
10 So Solomon took firm control of the kingdom. 11
1 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”
2 tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”
3 tn Heb “here or there.”
4 tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”
1 tn Heb “Why have you not kept the oath [to] the Lord and the commandment I commanded you?”
1 tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”
2 tn Heb “The Lord will cause your evil to return upon your head.”
1 tn Or “blessed.”
2 tn Heb “throne.”
1 tn “The king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada and he went out and struck him down and he died.”
2 tn “And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.”