2 Samuel 16:5-8

Shimei Curses David

⁵ When King David came to _v Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was _w Shimei, the son of Gera, and as he came _x he cursed continually. ⁶ And he threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. ⁷ And Shimei said as he _x cursed, "Get out, get out, you man of blood, you worthless man! ⁸ The Lord _y has avenged on you all _z the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, your evil is on you, for you are a man of blood."

1. Cross References
   2 Samuel 3:16
   But her husband went with her, weeping after her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, "Go, return." And he returned.
   
2. Cross References
   2 Samuel 19:16
   And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, from Bahurim, hurried to come down with the men of Judah to meet King David.
   1 Kings 2:8
   And there is also with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord, saying, 'I will not put you to death with the sword.
   1 Kings 2:36 - 46
   Then the king sent and summoned Shimei and said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and dwell there, and do not go out from there to any place whatever.
   
3. Cross References
   2 Samuel 19:21
   Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord 's anointed?
   
4. Cross References
   2 Samuel 16:5
   When King David came to Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera, and as he came he cursed continually.
   
5. Cross References
   Judges 9:24
   That the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.
   Judges 9:56 - 57
   Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.
   1 Kings 2:32 - 33
   The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
   
6. Cross References
   2 Samuel 1:16
   And David said to him, "Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have killed the Lord 's anointed.'