8“Behold, athere is with you Shimei the son of Gera the Benjamite, of Bahurim; now it was he who cursed me with a 1violentcurse on the day I went to Mahanaim. But when bhe camedown to me at the Jordan, I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, ‘I will not put you todeath with the sword.’