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 

[2:43]  ¹ tn Heb “Why have you not kept the oath [to] the Lord and the commandment I commanded you?”

[2:44]  ² tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”

[2:44]  ³ tn Heb “The Lord will cause your evil to return upon your head.”

[2:45]  ⁴ tn Or “blessed.”

[2:45]  ⁵ tn Heb “throne.”

[2:46]  ⁶ tn “The king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada and he went out and struck him down and he died.”

[2:46]  ⁷ tn “And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.”