2 Samuel 16:7
Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow!
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
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Cross References
1 Samuel 2:12Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know the LORD.
2 Samuel 3:37So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.
2 Samuel 12:9Why have you despised the LORD’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
1 Kings 21:13The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.
Psalms 5:6You will destroy those who speak lies. The LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
Psalms 55:4My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 16:6-15
David Cursed by Shimei. ( b. c. 1023.) 5 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came. 6 And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. 7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial: 8 The Lord hath returned upon thee all… Read the whole commentary →