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1 Kings 2:41-43
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1 Kings 2:41-43
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41 When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had then returned, 42 the king summoned[a] Shimei and said to him, “You will recall[b] that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere,[c] know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’[d] 43 Why then have you broken the oath you made before the Lord and disobeyed the order I gave you?”[e]
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- 1 Kings 2:42 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”
- 1 Kings 2:42 tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”
- 1 Kings 2:42 tn Heb “here or there.”
- 1 Kings 2:42 tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”
- 1 Kings 2:43 tn Heb “Why have you not kept the oath [to] the Lord and the commandment I commanded you?”
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