Exodus 6:17

The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, in the order of their families.

Numbers 3:18

And these are the names of the sons of Gershon, by their families: Libni and Shimei.

Numbers 3:21

From Gershon come the Libnites and the Shimeites; these are the families of the Gershonites.

2-Samuel 16:5

And when King David came to Bahurim, a man of Saul's family named Shimei, the son of Gera, came out from there, calling curses after him.

2-Samuel 16:7

And Shimei said, with curses, Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, you good-for-nothing:

2-Samuel 16:13

So David and his men went on their way: and Shimei went by the hillside parallel with them, cursing and sending stones and dust at him.

2-Samuel 19:16

And Shimei, the son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, got up quickly and went down with the men of Judah for the purpose of meeting King David;



2-Samuel 19:18

And kept going across the river to take the people of the king's house over, and to do whatever was desired by the king. And Shimei, the son of Gera, went down on his face in the dust before the king, when he was about to go over Jordan,

2-Samuel 19:21

But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, said, Is not death the right fate for Shimei, because he has been cursing the one marked by the holy oil?

2-Samuel 19:23

So the king said to Shimei, You will not be put to death. And the king gave him his oath.

2-Samuel 21:21

And when he was purposing to put shame on Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimei, David's brother, put him to death.

1-Kings 1:8

But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei, and David's men of war did not take the side of Adonijah.

1-Kings 2:8

Now you have with you Shimei, the son of Gera the Benjamite of Bahurim, who put a bitter curse on me on the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to see me at Jordan, and I gave him my oath by the Lord, saying, I will not put you to death by the sword.

1-Kings 2:36

Then the king sent for Shimei, and said to him, Make a house for yourself in Jerusalem and keep there and go to no other place.



1-Kings 2:38

And Shimei said to the king, Very well! as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do. And for a long time Shimei went on living in Jerusalem.

1-Kings 2:39

But after three years, two of the servants of Shimei went in flight to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And word was given to Shimei that his servants had gone to Gath.

1-Kings 2:40

Then Shimei got up, and making ready his ass, he went to Gath, to Achish, in search of his servants; and he sent and got them from Gath.

1-Kings 2:41

And news was given to Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to gath and had come back again.

1-Kings 2:42

Then the king sent for Shimei, and said to him, Did I not make you take an oath by the Lord, protesting to you and saying, Be certain that on the day when you go out from here, wherever you go, death will overtake you? and you said to me, Very well!

1-Kings 2:44

And the king said to Shimei, You have knowledge of all the evil which you did to David my father; and now the Lord has sent back your evil on yourself.

1-Kings 4:18

Shimei, the son of Ela, in Benjamin;



1-Chronicles 3:19

And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei; and the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister;

1-Chronicles 4:26

And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.

1-Chronicles 4:27

And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers had only a small number of children, and their family was not as fertile as the children of Judah.

1-Chronicles 5:4

The sons of Joel: shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,

1-Chronicles 6:17

And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.

1-Chronicles 6:29

The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,

1-Chronicles 6:42

The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,



1-Chronicles 8:21

And Adaiah and Beraiah and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei;

1-Chronicles 23:7

Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

1-Chronicles 23:9

The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth and Haziel and Haran, three; these were the heads of the families of Ladan.

1-Chronicles 23:10

And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zizah and Jeush and Beriah; these four were the sons of Shimei.

1-Chronicles 25:17

The tenth Shimei, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

1-Chronicles 27:27

Shimei the Ramathite was responsible for the vine-gardens; Zabdi the Shiphmite was responsible for the produce of the vine-gardens and for all the stores of wine;

2-Chronicles 29:14

And of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, shemaiah and Uzziel.



2-Chronicles 31:12

And in them they put all the offerings and the tenths and the holy things, keeping nothing back, and over them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother second to him.

2-Chronicles 31:13

And Jehiel and Azaziah and Nahath and Asahel and Jerimoth and Jozabad and Eliel and Ismachiah and Mahath and benaiah were overseers, under the directions of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the order of Hezekiah the king and Azariah, the ruler of the house of God.

Ezra 10:23

And of the Levites, Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (that is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

Ezra 10:33

Of the sons of Hashum, Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.

Ezra 10:38

And Bani and Binnui, Shimei;

Esther 2:5

Now there was a certain Jew in Shushan named Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;

Zechariah 12:13

The family of levi by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by themselves, and their wives by themselves;





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