Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New 
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

                                  SHIMEI

2SA 16:5  As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the same clan as 
Saul's family came out from there. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and he 
cursed as he came out.

2SA 16:6  He pelted David and all the king's officials with stones, though 
all the troops and the special guard were on David's right and left.

2SA 16:7  As he cursed, Shimei said, "Get out, get out, you man of blood, 
you scoundrel!

2SA 16:8  The LORD has repaid you for all the blood you shed in the 
household of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. The LORD has handed the 
kingdom over to your son Absalom. You have come to ruin because you are a 
man of blood!"

2SA 16:9  Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this 
dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut off his head."

2SA 16:10  But the king said, "What do you and I have in common, you sons 
of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the LORD said to him, 'Curse David,' 
who can ask, 'Why do you do this?'"

2SA 16:11  David then said to Abishai and all his officials, "My son, who 
is of my own flesh, is trying to take my life. How much more, then, this 
Benjamite! Leave him alone; let him curse, for the LORD has told him to.

2SA 16:12  It may be that the LORD will see my distress and repay me with 
good for the cursing I am receiving today."

2SA 16:13  So David and his men continued along the road while Shimei was 
going along the hillside opposite him, cursing as he went and throwing 
stones at him and showering him with dirt.

2SA 19:16  Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, hurried down 
with the men of Judah to meet King David.

2SA 19:17  With him were a thousand Benjamites, along with Ziba, the 
steward of Saul's household, and his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They 
rushed to the Jordan, where the king was.

2SA 19:18  They crossed at the ford to take the king's household over and 
to do whatever he wished. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he 
fell prostrate before the king

2SA 19:19  and said to him, "May my lord not hold me guilty. Do not 
remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left 
Jerusalem. May the king put it out of his mind.

2SA 19:20  For I your servant know that I have sinned, but today I have 
come here as the first of the whole house of Joseph to come down and meet 
my lord the king."

2SA 19:21  Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said, "Shouldn't Shimei be put to 
death for this? He cursed the LORD'S anointed."

2SA 19:22  David replied, "What do you and I have in common, you sons of 
Zeruiah? This day you have become my adversaries! Should anyone be put to 
death in Israel today? Do I not know that today I am king over Israel?"

2SA 19:23  So the king said to Shimei, "You shall not die." And the king 
promised him on oath.

1KI 2:36  Then the king sent for Shimei and said to him, "Build yourself a 
house in Jerusalem and live there, but do not go anywhere else.

1KI 2:37  The day you leave and cross the Kidron Valley, you can be sure 
you will die; your blood will be on your own head."

1KI 2:38  Shimei answered the king, "What you say is good. Your servant 
will do as my lord the king has said." And Shimei stayed in Jerusalem for a 
long time.

1KI 2:39  But three years later, two of Shimei's slaves ran off to Achish 
son of Maacah, king of Gath, and Shimei was told, "Your slaves are in 
Gath."

1KI 2:40  At this, he saddled his donkey and went to Achish at Gath in 
search of his slaves. So Shimei went away and brought the slaves back from 
Gath.

1KI 2:41  When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath 
and had returned,

1KI 2:42  the king summoned Shimei and said to him, "Did I not make you 
swear by the LORD and warn you, 'On the day you leave to go anywhere else, 
you can be sure you will die'? At that time you said to me, 'What you say 
is good. I will obey.'

1KI 2:43  Why then did you not keep your oath to the LORD and obey the 
command I gave you?"

1KI 2:44  The king also said to Shimei, "You know in your heart all the 
wrong you did to my father David. Now the LORD will repay you for your 
wrongdoing.

1KI 2:45  But King Solomon will be blessed, and David's throne will remain 
secure before the LORD forever."

1KI 2:46  Then the king gave the order to Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he 
went out and struck Shimei down and killed him. The kingdom was now firmly 
established in Solomon's hands.

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