42. So Solomon sent for him and said, “I made you promise in the Lord’S name not to leave Jerusalem. And I warned you that if you went anywhere, you would die. And you agreed to what I said. You said that you would obey me.
43. So why didn’t you obey me? Why did you break your promise to the Lord?
44. You know all the bad things you did to my father David. Now the Lord will punish you for it.
45. But the Lord will bless me and keep David’s throne before him forever.”
46. Then the king ordered Benaiah to kill Shimei, and he did. So Solomon had full control of his kingdom.