1 Kings 2:8

2:8 “Note well, you still have to contend with Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, ¹  who tried to call down upon me a horrible judgment when I went to Mahanaim. ²  He came down and met me at the Jordan, and I solemnly promised ³  him by the Lord, ‘I will not strike you down ⁴  with the sword.’

1 Kings 2:42

2:42 the king summoned ⁵  Shimei and said to him, “You will recall ⁶  that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, ⁷  know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ ⁸ 

1 Kings 3:6

3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated ⁹  great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served ¹⁰  you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. ¹¹  You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. ¹² 

¹ tn Heb “Look, with you is Shimei….”

² tn Heb “and he cursed me with a horrible curse on the day I went to Mahanaim.”

³ tn Or “swore an oath to.”

⁴ tn Heb “kill you.”

⁵ tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

⁶ tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”

⁷ tn Heb “here or there.”

⁸ tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”

⁹ tn Heb “did.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “walked before.”

¹¹ tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

¹² tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”