The next meeting was very different. The king was now returning from his successful campaign.
Just as he was crossing the Jordan, (2 Samuel 19:18) the first person to welcome him was Shimei
who threw himself at David’s feet in abject penitence. But the king’s suspicions were not set at
rest by this submission; and on his death-bed he recalls the whole scene to the recollection of his
son Solomon. Solomon gave Shimei notice that from henceforth he must consider himself confined
to the walls of Jerusalem, on pain of death. (1 Kings 3:36,37) For three years the engagement was
kept. At the end of that time for the purpose of capturing two slaves who had escaped to Gath, he
went out on his ass, and made his journey successfully. Ibid. (1 Kings 2:40) On his return the king
took him at his word, and he was slain by Benaiah. Ibid. (1 Kings 2:41-46)
•One of the adherents of Solomon at the time of Adonjah’s usurpation. (1 Kings 1:8) (B.C.1015.)
•Solomon’s commissariat officer in Benjamin. (1 Kings 4:18)
•Son of Pedaiah, and brother of Zerubbabel. (1 Chronicles 3:19) (B.C. 536.)
•A Simeonite, son of Zacchur. (1 Chronicles 4:26,27)
•Son of Gog, a Reubenite. (1 Chronicles 5:4)
•A Gershonite Levite, son of Jahath. (1 Chronicles 6:42)
•Son of Jeduthun, and chief of the tenth division of the singers. (1 Chronicles 25:17)
•The Ramathite who was over David’s vineyards. (1 Chronicles 27:27)
•A Levite of the sons of Heman, who took part in the purification of the temple under Zedekiah.
(2 Chronicles 29:14) (B.C. 726.)
•The brother of Cononiah the Levite, in the reign of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 31:12,13) Perhaps
the same as the preceding.
•A Levite in the time of Ezra who had married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:23)
•One of the family of Hashum, who put away his foreign wife at Ezra’s command. (Ezra 10:33)
•A son of Bani, who had also married a foreign wife, and put her away. (Ezra 10:38) (B.C. 459.)
•Son of Kish, a Benjamite, and ancestor of Mordecai. (Esther 2:5) (B.C. before 479).
Shimeon
(hearing (prayer), a lay man of Israel, of the family of Harim, who had married a foreign wife,
and divorced her in the time of Ezra. (Ezra 10:31) (B.C. 458.)
Shimhi
(renowned), a Benjamite, apparently the same as Shema the son of Elpaal. (1 Chronicles 8:21)
Shimi
= Shimei, 1. (Exodus 6:17)
Shimites, The
the descendants of Shimei the son of Gershon. (Numbers 3:21)
Shimon
(desert). The four sons of Shimon are enumerated in an obscure genealogy of the tribe of Judah.
(1 Chronicles 4:20)
Shimrath
(guard), a Benjamite, of the sons of Shimhi. (1 Chronicles 8:21)
Shimri
(vigilant).
•A Simeonite son of Shemaiah. (1 Chronicles 4:37) (B.C. after 1450.)
•The father of Jediael, one of David’s guard. (1 Chronicles 11:45) (B.C. before 1043.)
•A Kohathite Levite in the reign of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 29:13) (B.C. 726.)
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