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1 Kings 2:42-44
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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] 44 Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David.[f] The Lord will punish you for what you did.[g]

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  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.”
  5. 1 Kings 2:43 tn Heb “Why have you not kept the oath [to] the Lord and the commandment I commanded you?”
  6. 1 Kings 2:44 tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”
  7. 1 Kings 2:44 tn Heb “The Lord will cause your evil to return upon your head.”
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