New American Standard Bible (NASB)
1 Kings 2
38 Shimei then said to the king, "The word is good. As my lord the king has said, so your servant will do." So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.
39 But it came about at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, "Behold, your servants are in Gath."
40 Then Shimei arose and saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish to look for his servants. And Shimei went and brought his servants from Gath.
41 It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had returned.
42 So the king sent and called for Shimei and said to him, "Did I not make you swear by the Lord and solemnly warn you, saying, ’You will know for certain that on the day you depart and go anywhere, you shall surely die’? And you said to me, ’The word which I have heard is good.’
43 Why then have you not kept the oath of the Lord, and the command which I have laid on you?"
44 The king also said to Shimei, "You know all the evil which you acknowledge in your heart, which you did to my father David; therefore the Lord shall return your evil on your own head.
45 But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord forever."
46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he went out and fell upon him so that he died. Thus the kingdom was established in the hands of Solomon.
1 Kings 3
1 Then Solomon formed a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her to the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.
2 The people were still sacrificing on the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the Lord until those days.
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