Kings III 2:34-37

³⁴So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, and attacked him, and slew him, and buried him in his house in the wilderness.

³⁵And the king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada in his place over the host; and the kingdom was established in Jerusalem; and as for Zadok the priest, the king appointed him to be high priest in the room of Abiathar. And Solomon son of David reigned over Israel and Judah in Jerusalem:

^35aand the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and very much wisdom, and largeness of heart, as the sand by the seashore.

^35bAnd the wisdom of Solomon abounded exceedingly beyond the wisdom of all the ancients, and beyond all the wise men of Egypt;

^35cand he took the daughter of Pharaoh, and brought her into the city of David, until he had finished building his own house, and the house of the Lord first, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. In seven years he made and finished them.

^35dAnd Solomon had seventy thousand bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the mountain:

^35eand Solomon made the sea, and the bases, and the great lavers, and the pillars, and the fountain of the court, and the brazen sea—and he built the citadel as a defense above it, he made a breach in the wall of the city of David;

^35fthus the daughter of Pharaoh went up out of the city of David to her house which he built for her. Then he built the citadel;

^35gand Solomon offered up three whole burnt offerings in the year, and peace offerings on the altar which he built to the Lord, and he burned incense before the Lord, and finished the house.

^35hAnd these are the chief persons who presided over the works of Solomon; three thousand and six hundred masters of the people that wrought the works.

³⁵ⁱAnd he built Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer, and upper Beth-horon, and Baalath:

^35konly after he had built the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about, afterward he built these cities.

^35lAnd when David was yet living, he charged Solomon, saying, Behold, there is with thee Shimei the son of Gera, of the seed of Benjamin out of Hebron:

^35mhe cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went into the camp;

³⁵ⁿand he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, He shall not be slain with the sword.

^35oBut now do not thou hold him guiltless, for thou art a man of understanding, and thou wilt know what thou shalt do to him, and thou shalt bring down his gray hairs with blood to the grave.

³⁶And the king called Shimei, and said to him, Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and thou shalt not go out thence any whither.

³⁷And it shall come to pass in the day that thou shalt go forth and cross over the brook Kidron, know assuredly that thou shalt certainly die: thy blood shall be upon thy head. And the king caused him to swear in that day.