ECB(i)
16 and Shimi the son of Gera a Ben Yaminiy of Bachurim hastens and descends with the men of Yah Hudah to meet sovereign David
17 - with a thousand men of Ben Yamin and Siba the lad of the house of Shaul with his fifteen sons and his twenty servants; and they prosper over Yarden at the face of the sovereign.
18 And a raft passes over - passes over the house of the sovereign to work good in his eyes: and he passes over Yarden and Shimi the son of Gera falls at the face of the sovereign,
19 and says to the sovereign, O that my adoni neither fabricate perversity to me, nor remember what your servant perverted the day my adoni the sovereign went from Yeru Shalem - that the sovereign set it to his heart:
20 for your servant knows I sinned: and behold, I come this day - the first of all the house of Yoseph to descend to meet my adoni the sovereign.
21 And Abi Shai the son of Seruyah answers and says, Was not Shimi deathified for this - because he abased the anointed of Yah Veh?
22 And David says, What have I to do with you, you sons of Seruyah, that this day you are satans to me? Is any man deathified this day in Yisra El? For know I not that I - this day am sovereign over Yisra El?
23 And the sovereign says to Shimi, You die not. - and the sovereign oaths to him.