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17 and a thousand men [from the tribe] of Benjamin with him. And Ziba, the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and twenty servants with him, rushed down to the Jordan before the king. 18 Then they [repeatedly] crossed the ford to bring over the king’s household (family), and to do what pleased him. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king as he was about to cross the Jordan, 19 and said to the king, “Let not my lord consider me guilty, nor remember what your servant did [a]wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem, so that the king would take it to heart.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 19:19 Shimei’s insulting behavior is recorded in 16:5-8.

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