1 Kings 2:44

And the king said to Shimei, 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.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;

In Context

43And why hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment which I commanded thee?

45And King Solomon is blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord forever.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:39And David heard it and said, Blessed be the Lord, who has judged the cause of my reproach at the hand of Nabal, and has delivered his servant from the power of evil; and the Lord has returned the mischief of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, 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 Abner the son of Ner the commander-in-chief of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether the commander-in-chief of Judah.

Psalms 7:16He has opened a pit, and dug it up, 1 And he shall fall into the ditch which he has made. 1

Proverbs 5:22Iniquities ensnare a man, 1 And every one is bound in the chains of his own sins. 1

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 →

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