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41 When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had returned, 42 the king sent and summoned Shimei, and he said to him, “Did I not make you swear by Yahweh? I warned you, saying, ‘On the day you go out and you go anywhere whatsoever,[a] know for certain that you will surely die.’[b] And you said to me, ‘The word is good; I accept.’ 43 Why have you not kept the oath of Yahweh and the command which I commanded you?”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 2:42 Literally “where and where”
  2. 1 Kings 2:42 Literally “dying you will die”