7. As for Barzillai’s sons from Gilead, show them kindness. Let them eat with you. When I was running away from your brother Absalom, they came to me.
8. Now as for this Shimei, Gera’s son—a Benjaminite from Bahurim—who is with you, he cursed me viciously when I went to Mahanaim. When he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord, ‘Surely I won’t execute you with the sword.’
9. But you don’t need to excuse him. You are wise and know what to do to him. Give him a violent death."
10. Then David lay down with his ancestors and was buried in David’s City.