1 Kings 2:44
And the king said to Semei, Thou knowest all thy mischief which thy heart knows, which thou didst to David my father: and the Lord has recompensed thy mischief on thine own head.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
45And king Solomon is blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord for ever.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:39And David heard it + 25:39 Heb. and Alex. insert 'that Nabal was dead.and said, Blessed be the Lord, who has judged the cause of my reproach at the hand of Nabal, and has delivered his servant + 25:39 Or, from the hand of wicked men.from the power of evil; and the Lord has returned the mischief of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and spoke concerning Abigaia, to take her to himself for a wife.
1 Kings 2:32And the Lord has returned upon his own head the blood of his unrighteousness, inasmuch as he attacked two men more righteous and better than himself, and slew them with the sword, and my father David knew not of their blood, even Abenner the son of Ner the commander-in-chief of Israel, and Amessa the son of Jether the commander-in-chief of Juda.
Psalms 7:16He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made.
Proverbs 5:22Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.
Hosea 4:9And the priest shall be as the people: and I will avenge on them their ways, and I will recompense to them their counsels.
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 →