2 Samuel 19:17-19

Living Bible

¹⁷ A thousand men from the tribe of Benjamin were with him, including Ziba, the servant of Saul, and Ziba’s fifteen sons and twenty servants; they rushed down to the Jordan to arrive ahead of the king. ¹⁸ They all worked hard ferrying the king’s household and troops across, and helped them in every way they could.

As the king was crossing, Shimei fell down before him, ¹⁹ and pleaded, “My lord the king, please forgive me and forget the terrible thing I did when you left Jerusalem;