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1 Kings 2:40-42
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40 So Shimei got up, saddled his donkey, and went to Achish at Gath to find his servants; Shimei went and brought back his servants from Gath. 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]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 2:42 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”
  2. 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.”
  3. 1 Kings 2:42 tn Heb “here or there.”
  4. 1 Kings 2:42 tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”
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