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?”
1
2:44 Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David.
2 The
Lord will punish you for what you did.
3
2:45 But King Solomon will be empowered
4 and David’s dynasty
5 will endure permanently before the
Lord.”
2:46 The king then gave the order to Benaiah son of Jehoiada who went and executed Shimei.
6 So Solomon took firm control of the kingdom. 7
1 tn Heb “Why have you not kept the oath [to] the Lord and the commandment I commanded you?”
2 tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”
3 tn Heb “The Lord will cause your evil to return upon your head.”
4 tn Or “blessed.”
5 tn Heb “throne.”
6 tn “The king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada and he went out and struck him down and he died.”
7 tn “And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.”