Read 1 Kings 2:8 (New American Standard Bible) on maBible, the Bible online. Other reference formats: 1 Kings 2.8, 1 Kings 2v8, 1R. 2:8. And behold, you have with you Shimei the son of Gera the Benjaminite, of Bahurim; now it was he who cursed me with a painful curse on the day I went to Mahanaim.…
Other reference formats: 1 Kings 2.8, 1 Kings 2v8, 1R. 2:8.
8 And behold, you have with you Shimei the son of Gera the Benjaminite, of Bahurim; now it was he who cursed me with a painful curse on the day I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’