^{17 18} And there were a thousand men^◦ of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the lad^* of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with^◦ him; and he went·​·prosperously over Jordan before the king.

⁸ And, behold, there is with thee Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Baḥurim, and he^◦ reviled me with a reviling that was·​·grievous in the day of my going to Mahanaim; but he^◦ came·​·down to meet me at the Jordan, and I promised to him by Jehovah, saying, I will· not^▫ ·put· thee ·to·​·death with the sword.