1 Kings 4:18

4:18 Shimei son of Ela was in charge of Benjamin.

1 Kings 2:38

2:38 Shimei said to the king, “My master the king’s proposal is acceptable. 1  Your servant will do as you say.” 2  So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time. 3 

1 Kings 2:40-41

2:40 So Shimei got up, saddled his donkey, and went to Achish at Gath to find his servants; Shimei went and brought back his servants from Gath. 2:41 When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had then returned,

1 Kings 2:39

2:39 Three years later two of Shimei’s servants ran away to King Achish son of Maacah of Gath. Shimei was told, “Look, your servants are in Gath.”

1 Kings 1:8

1:8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s elite warriors 4  did not ally themselves 5  with Adonijah.

1 Kings 2:36

2:36 Next the king summoned 6  Shimei and told him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem 7  and live there – but you may not leave there to go anywhere! 8 

1 Kings 2:8

2:8 “Note well, you still have to contend with Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, 9  who tried to call down upon me a horrible judgment when I went to Mahanaim. 10  He came down and met me at the Jordan, and I solemnly promised 11  him by the Lord, ‘I will not strike you down 12  with the sword.’

1 Kings 2:42

2:42 the king summoned 13  Shimei and said to him, “You will recall 14  that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, 15  know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ 16 

1 Kings 2:44

2:44 Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. 17  The Lord will punish you for what you did. 18 

1 tn Heb “Good is the word, as my master the king has spoken.”

2 tn Heb “so your servant will do.”

3 tn Heb “many days.”

1 tn Or “bodyguard” (Heb “mighty men”).

2 tn Heb “were not.”

1 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

2 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

3 tn Heb “and you may not go out from there here or there.”

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.”

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 “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.”