1 Kings 2:8
Context2:8 “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
Context2:42 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
Context3:6 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


[2:8] 1 tn Heb “Look, with you is Shimei….”
[2:8] 2 tn Heb “and he cursed me with a horrible curse on the day I went to Mahanaim.”
[2:8] 3 tn Or “swore an oath to.”
[2:42] 5 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”
[2:42] 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.”
[2:42] 7 tn Heb “here or there.”
[2:42] 8 tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”
[3:6] 10 tn Heb “walked before.”
[3:6] 11 tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”
[3:6] 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.”