21. For your servant knows that I have done wrong. But I now am the first of the whole house of Joseph to come down today to meet my lord the king.”
22. But Abishai, son of Zeruiah, countered: “Shimei must be put to death for this. He cursed the anointed of the Lord.”
23. David replied: “What has come between you and me, sons of Zeruiah, that you would become my adversaries this day? Should anyone die today in Israel? Am I not aware that today I am king over Israel?”
24. Then the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king gave him his oath.