Shimei is a name that appears in the Old Testament, and there are many individuals with the same name. The most famous figure is the one who appears in the rebellion of Absalom. ## Shimei who cursed King David He was a man of the tribe of Benjamin and the son of Gera. He was the one who threw stones and cursed David as David was hastily fleeing when Absalom rebelled. It is presumed that he harbored ill feelings towards David even before, as he belonged to the same tribe as King Saul. When Abishai requested to kill him for his curse, David forgave him, saying that it too was God's providence.
2 Samuel 16:5He cast stones at David), and at all the servants of king David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.2 Samuel 16:6Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow!2 Samuel 16:7Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!”2 Samuel 16:8Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.”2 Samuel 16:9The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”2 Samuel 16:10David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.2 Samuel 16:11It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”2 Samuel 16:12So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him, and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and threw dust.2 Samuel 16:13The king, and all the people who were with him, came weary; and he refreshed himself there.
2 Samuel 19:18He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.2 Samuel 19:19For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore behold, I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.”2 Samuel 19:20But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh’s anointed?”2 Samuel 19:21David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel)? For don’t I know that I am king over Israel today?”2 Samuel 19:22The king said to Shimei, “You will not die.” The king swore to him.2 Samuel 19:23Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.
그러나, 다윗은 죽음을 앞두고 솔로몬에게 적당한 때에 지혜롭게 죽일 것을 유언으로 남긴다.
1 Kings 2:8Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”1 Kings 2:9David) slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.
1 Kings 2:35The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and live there, and don’t go anywhere else.1 Kings 2:36For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head.”1 Kings 2:37Shimei said to the king, “What you say is good. As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.1 Kings 2:38At the end of three years, two of Shimei)’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath). They told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves are in Gath.”1 Kings 2:39Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath) to Achish, to seek his slaves; and Shimei went, and brought his slaves from Gath.1 Kings 2:40Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again.1 Kings 2:41The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Didn’t I adjure you by Yahweh, and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk anywhere else, you shall surely die?’ You said to me, ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’1 Kings 2:42Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment that I have instructed you with?”1 Kings 2:43The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.1 Kings 2:44But king Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be established before Yahweh forever.”1 Kings 2:45So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.1 Kings 2:46So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
다윗왕의 말년에 아들 아도니야가 반란을 일으켰는데, 그때 반란에 가담하지 않았던 사람 중 하나이다.
1 Kings 1:7But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.1 Kings 1:8Adonijah killed sheep, cattle, and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants;
게르손의 아들 시므이
Numbers 3:17These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.Numbers 3:18The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
총독 스룹바벨의 형제 시므이
1 Chronicles 3:19and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab Hesed, five.
삭굴의 아들 시므이
1 Chronicles 4:26Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn’t have many children, and all their family didn’t multiply like the children of Judah.
곡의 아들 시므이
1 Chronicles 5:4Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,
립니의 아들 시므이
1 Chronicles 6:29Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
1 Chronicles 6:43On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi), the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
1 Chronicles 8:21Ishpan, Eber, Eliel,
1 Chronicles 23:7The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, Zetham, and Joel, three.
1 Chronicles 25:3Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth.
1 Chronicles 25:17the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 27:27and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Baal Hanan the Gederite; and over the cellars of oil was Joash;
2 Chronicles 29:14They gathered their brothers, sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by Yahweh’s words, to cleanse Yahweh’s house.
2 Chronicles 31:12Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the ruler of God’s house.
Ezra 10:23Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
Esther 2:5who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.