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 8:66

8:66 On the fifteenth day after the festival started, ⁹  he dismissed the people. They asked God to empower the king ¹⁰  and then went to their homes, happy and content ¹¹  because of all the good the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel.

1 Kings 16:16

16:16 While deployed there, the army received this report: ¹²  “Zimri has conspired against the king and assassinated him.” ¹³  So all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day in the camp.

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 “on the eighth day” (that is, the day after the second seven-day sequence).

¹⁰ tn Heb “they blessed the king.”

¹¹ tn Heb “good of heart.”

¹³ tn Heb “and the people who were encamped heard.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “has conspired against and also has struck down the king.”