37. For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head.”
38. Shimei said to the king, “What you say is good. As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.
39. At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves are in Gath.”
40. Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his slaves; and Shimei went, and brought his slaves from Gath.
41. Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again.
42. The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Didn’t I adjure you by the Lord, and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk anywhere else, you shall surely die?’ You said to me, ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’
43. Why then have you not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I have instructed you with?”
44. The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore the Lord will return your wickedness on your own head.
45. But king Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be established before the Lord forever.”
46. So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.