^{43 44} And the man^◦ of Israel answered the man^◦ of Judah, and said, I have^◦ ten shares^* in the king and also in David, I^◦ more than thou; and wherefore didst thou revile me, and was not my word the first for me to return my king? and the word of the man^◦ of Judah was more hardened than the word of the man^◦ of Israel.

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.