1 Kings 2:43-46

2:43 Why then have you broken the oath you made before the Lord and disobeyed the order I gave you?” 2:44 Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. The Lord will punish you for what you did. 2:45 But King Solomon will be empowered and David’s dynasty will endure permanently before the Lord.” 2:46 The king then gave the order to Benaiah son of Jehoiada who went and executed Shimei.

So Solomon took firm control of the kingdom.


tn Heb “Why have you not kept the oath [to] the Lord and the commandment I commanded you?”

tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”

tn Heb “The Lord will cause your evil to return upon your head.”

tn Or “blessed.”

tn Heb “throne.”

tn “The king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada and he went out and struck him down and he died.”

tn “And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.”