II Samuel 19
David returns to Jerusalem
11 Then king David sent to Zadok and Abiathar, priests, saying, Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house? (For the words of all Israel reached the king, even to his house.).
12 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: why then should ye be the last to bring back the king?
13 And to Amasa ye shall say, Art thou not my bone and my flesh? So may God do to me, and more, if you are not captain of the camp before me forever instead of Joab.
14 So he moved the heart of all the men of Judah like one man: and they sent to the king, saying, Return thou, and all thy servants.
15 Then the king returned, and came to Jordan; and Judah came from Gilgal to meet the king on the other side of Jordan.
16 And Shimei the son of Gera, the son of Jemini, who was from Bahurim, hurried down and went down with the men of Judah to meet King David.
17 And with him a thousand men of Benjamin, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons, and his twenty servants with him; and they promptly crossed over Jordan before the king.
18 And when the boat passed by to bring the king's house across and to do what seemed good in his eyes, then Shimei the son of Gera prostrated himself before the king as he crossed the Jordan.
19 And the king said, Let not my lord charge me with my guilt, and remember not what thy servant did so wickedly, in the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem; don't keep the king that in your heart.
20 For thy servant indeed confesses that I have sinned: yet, behold, I am the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.
21 Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei die for this, having cursed the Lord's anointed?
22 But David said, What have I to do with you, sons of Zeruiah, that you are adversaries against me today? Would anyone die today in Israel? Why do I not know that today I have been made king over Israel?
23 And the king said to Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king swore to him.
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