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7 “But show kindness to the sons of aBarzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who beat at your table, for so cthey came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.  
8 “And see, you have with you aShimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a malicious curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim. But bhe came down to meet me at the Jordan, and cI swore to him by the Lord, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’  
9 Now therefore, ado not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man and know what you ought to do to him; but bbring his gray hair down to the grave with blood.”  

Death of David

10 So aDavid rested with his fathers, and was buried in bthe City of David.  
11 The period that David areigned over Israel was forty years; seven years he reigned in Hebron, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years.  
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1 Kings 2:9

Hold him not guiltless - i. e. "Do not treat him as an innocent man. Punish him as in thy wisdom thou deemest best. Not capitally at once; but so that he may be likely to give thee in course of time a just occasion to slay him." So, at least, Solomon seems to have understood the charge. (See I Kings 2:36-46.)




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