a 2 Sam 16:5-13; 1 Kin 2:8
b 2 Sam 16:1-4; 19:26, 27
c 1 Sam 22:15; 2 Sam 16:6-8
e 2 Sam 16:5
f 2 Sam 16:7, 8
g Ex 22:28
h 2 Sam 3:39; 16:9, 10
i 1 Sam 11:13
j 1 Kin 2:8

2 Samuel 19:16-23

16Then aShimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite who was from Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet King David. 17There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, with bZiba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they rushed to the Jordan before the king. 18Then they kept crossing the ford to bring over the king’s household, and to do what was good in his sight. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king as he was about to cross the Jordan. 19So he said to the king, c“Let not my lord consider me guilty, nor remember what your servant did wrong on the day when my lord the king came out from Jerusalem, so that the king would ▼
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take it to heart. 20“For your servant knows that I have sinned; therefore behold, I have come today, ethe first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.” 21But Abishai the son of Zeruiah said, f“Should not Shimei be put to death for this, gbecause he cursed the Lord’s anointed?” 22David then said, h“What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be an adversary to me? iShould any man be put to death in Israel today? For do I not know that I am king over Israel today?” 23The king said to Shimei, j“You shall not die.” Thus the king swore to him.
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