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1 Kings 2:7-9
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7 “Treat fairly[a] the sons of Barzillai of Gilead and provide for their needs,[b] because they helped me[c] when I had to flee from your brother Absalom.

8 “Note well, you still have to contend with Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim,[d] who tried to call down upon me a horrible judgment when I went to Mahanaim.[e] He came down and met me at the Jordan, and I solemnly promised[f] him by the Lord, ‘I will not strike you down[g] with the sword.’ 9 But now[h] don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him;[i] make sure he has a bloody death.”[j]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 2:7 tn Heb “do loyalty with”; or “act faithfully toward.”
  2. 1 Kings 2:7 tn Heb “and let them be among the ones who eat [at] your table.”
  3. 1 Kings 2:7 tn Heb “thus drew near to.”
  4. 1 Kings 2:8 tn Heb “Look, with you is Shimei….”
  5. 1 Kings 2:8 tn Heb “and he cursed me with a horrible curse on the day I went to Mahanaim.”
  6. 1 Kings 2:8 tn Or “swore an oath to.”
  7. 1 Kings 2:8 tn Heb “kill you.”
  8. 1 Kings 2:9 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.
  9. 1 Kings 2:9 tn Heb “what you should do to him.”
  10. 1 Kings 2:9 tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”
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