8. You also have with you Shimei, son of Gera, the Benjaminite of Bahurim, who cursed me bitterly the day I was going to Mahanaim. When he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord: ‘I will not kill you by the sword.’
9. But you must not let him go unpunished. You are wise; you will know what to do to send his gray head down to Sheol in blood.”
10. David rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David.
11. David was king over Israel for forty years: he was king seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
12. Then Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingship was established.
13. Adonijah, son of Haggith, came to Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon. “Do you come in peace?” she asked. “In peace,” he answered,
14. and he added, “I have something to say to you.” She replied, “Speak.”
15. So he said: “You know that the kingship was mine, and all Israel expected me to be king. But the kingship passed me by and went to my brother; by the Lord’s will it went to him.