Discovery Box1 Kings 2:38-42 
Context2:38 Shimei said to the king, “My master the king’s proposal is acceptable. 1 Your servant will do as you say.” 2 So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time. 3
2:39 Three years later two of Shimei’s servants ran away to King Achish son of Maacah of Gath. Shimei was told, “Look, your servants are in Gath.” 2:40 So Shimei got up, saddled his donkey, and went to Achish at Gath to find his servants; Shimei went and brought back his servants from Gath. 2:41 When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had then returned, 2:42 the king summoned 4 Shimei and said to him, “You will recall 5 that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, 6 know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ 7
1 tn Heb “Good is the word, as my master the king has spoken.”
2 tn Heb “so your servant will do.”
3 tn Heb “many days.”
4 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”
5 tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”
6 tn Heb “here or there.”
7 tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”
