1 Kings 2:34-46

³⁴So Benaiah went into the Sacred Tent and killed Joab. Joab was buried on his property in the desert part of Judah.

³⁵Then the king appointed Benaiah to be the commander of the army instead of Joab, and he appointed Zadok to be the priest instead of Abiathar.

³⁶Then the king sent a messenger to summon Shimei, and the king said to him, “Build a house for yourself here in Jerusalem. Remain there and do not leave the city to go anywhere.

³⁷Be sure that the day that you leave Jerusalem and go across the Kidron Brook, you will be executed, and it will be ◄your own fault/what you deserve►.”

³⁸Shimei replied, “Your Majesty, what you say is good. I will do what you have said.” So Shimei remained in Jerusalem for several years.

³⁹But three years later, two of Shimei's slaves ran away. They went to stay with Maacah's son Achish, the king of Gath city. When someone told Shimei that they were in Gath,

⁴⁰he put a saddle on his donkey and got on it and went to Gath. He found his slaves staying with King Achish and brought them back home.

⁴¹But someone told King Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had returned.

⁴²So the king sent a soldier to summon Shimei and said to him, “I told you to solemnly promise, knowing that Yahweh MTY was listening, that you must not leave Jerusalem. I told you RHQ, ‘Be sure that if you ever leave Jerusalem, you will be executed.’ And you replied RHQ to me, ‘What you have said is good; I will do what you have said.’

⁴³So why did you not do what you solemnly promised to Yahweh? Why did you disobey what I commanded you?”

⁴⁴The king also said to Shimei, “You know all the evil things that you did to my father David. So Yahweh will now punish you for the evil things that you did.

⁴⁵But Yahweh will bless me, and he will enable David's descendants MTY to rule forever.”

⁴⁶Then the king gave an order to Benaiah, and he went and killed Shimei. So Solomon was completely in control of the kingdom.