1 Kin 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.
1 Kin 2:39 ¶ 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."
1 Kin 2:40 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.
1 Kin 2:41 It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had returned.
1 Kin 2:42 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.'
1 Kin 2:43 "Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD, and the command which I have laid on you?"
1 Kin 2:44 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.
1 Kin 2:45 "But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD forever."
1 Kin 2:46 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 Kin 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.
1 Kin 3:2 The people were still sacrificing on the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.
1 Kin 3:3 ¶ Now Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of his father David, except he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
1 Kin 3:4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place; Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
1 Kin 3:5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; and God said, "Ask what you wish me to give you."
1 Kin 3:6 Then Solomon said, "You have shown great lovingkindness to Your servant David my father, according as he walked before You in truth and righteousness and uprightness of heart toward You; and You have reserved for him this great lovingkindness, that You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
1 Kin 3:7 "Now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in place of my father David, yet I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.
1 Kin 3:8 "Your servant is in the midst of Your people which You have chosen, a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted.
1 Kin 3:9 "So give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?"
1 Kin 3:10 ¶ It was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.
1 Kin 3:11 God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice,