1 Kings 2:37
Context2:37 If you ever do leave and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will certainly die! You will be responsible for your own death.” 1
1 Kings 11:40
Context11:40 Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam escaped to Egypt and found refuge with King Shishak of Egypt. 2 He stayed in Egypt until Solomon died.
1 Kings 2:42
Context2:42 the king summoned 3 Shimei and said to him, “You will recall 4 that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, 5 know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ 6
1 Kings 2:26
Context2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property 7 in Anathoth. You deserve to die, 8 but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.” 9


[2:37] 1 tn Heb “your blood will be upon your head.”
[11:40] 2 tn Heb “but Jeroboam arose and ran away to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt.”
[2:42] 3 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”
[2:42] 4 tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”
[2:42] 5 tn Heb “here or there.”
[2:42] 6 tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”
[2:26] 5 tn Heb “you are a man of death.”
[2:26] 6 tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”