40Then Shimei got up, and making ready his ass, he went to Gath, to Achish, in search of his servants; and he sent and got them from Gath.
41And news was given to Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had come back again.
42Then the king sent for Shimei, and said to him, Did I not make you take an oath by the Lord, protesting to you and saying, Be certain that on the day when you go out from here, wherever you go, death will overtake you? and you said to me, Very well!
43Why then have you not kept the oath of the Lord and the order which I gave you?
44And the king said to Shimei, You have knowledge of all the evil which you did to David my father; and now the Lord has sent back your evil on yourself.
45But a blessing will be on King Solomon, and the kingdom of David will keep its place before the Lord for ever.
46So the king gave orders to Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada; and he went out and, falling on him, put him to death. And Solomon's authority over the kingdom was complete.
