And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
Parallel translations
- WEB Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow!
- BSB And as he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you worthless man of bloodshed!
- NKJV Also Shimei said thus when he cursed: “Come out! Come out! You bloodthirsty man, you rogue!
- NASB This is what Shimei said when he cursed: “Go away, go away, you man of bloodshed and worthless man!
- NLT “Get out of here, you murderer, you scoundrel!” he shouted at David.
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Quick answer
Shimei curses David as a worthless man of blood. He blames David for bloodshed connected to Saul's house.
Overview
Shimei's curses brand David a murderer and scoundrel, accusing him of shedding the blood of Saul's family. The charges are unjust, since David had repeatedly spared Saul and mourned his death. The false accusation against the suffering king foreshadows the unjust reproaches heaped upon Christ, who also bore reviling without retaliation (1 Peter 2:23).
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- Ps 51:14Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
- Deut 13:13Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
- 2 Sam 11:15–17And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
- 2 Sam 12:9Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
- 1 Sam 2:12Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
- 1 Sam 25:17Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.
- 2 Sam 3:37For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
- Ps 5:6Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
- 1 Kgs 21:10And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
- 1 Kgs 21:13And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
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