1 Kings 2:44
The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou know all the iniquity which thy heart is privy to, what thou did to David my father. Therefore LORD shall return thy iniquity upon thine own head.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
43Why then have thou not kept the oath of LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?
45But king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before LORD forever.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:39And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil, and the evil-doing of Nabal LORD has returned upon his ow
1 Kings 2:32And LORD will return his blood upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know it, [namely], Abner the son of Ner, captain of the a
Psalms 7:16His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own scalp.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
Hosea 4:9And it shall be, like people, like priest. And I will punish them for their ways, and will requite them their doings.
Romans 2:15Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, testifying of their conscience, and their thoughts amidst each other accusing or also defending them
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 2:36-46
Shimei's Punishment. ( b. c. 1014.) 35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar. 36 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither. 37 For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head. 38 And… Read the whole commentary →