44 Verses About Shimei from 10 Books

1 Chronicles 3:19

The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel, and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam, and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister;

1 Chronicles 4:26

The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.

1 Chronicles 4:27

Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn't have many children, neither did all their family multiply like 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

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 fathers' [houses] of Ladan.

1 Chronicles 23:10

The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.

1 Chronicles 25:17

the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve:

1 Chronicles 27:27

and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: and over the increase of the vineyards for the winecellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:

1 Kings 1:8

But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.



1 Kings 2:8

"Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the LORD, saying, 'I will not put you to death with the sword.'

1 Kings 2:36

The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and don't go out from there anywhere.

1 Kings 2:38

Shimei said to the king, "The saying is good. As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do." Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.

1 Kings 2:39

It happened at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, "Behold, your servants are in Gath."

1 Kings 2:40

Shimei arose, and saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his servants; and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.

1 Kings 2:41

It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.

1 Kings 2:42

The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, "Didn't I adjure you by the LORD, and warn you, saying, 'Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk abroad any where, you shall surely die?' You said to me, 'The saying that I have heard is good.'



1 Kings 2:44

The king said moreover to Shimei, "You know all the wickedness which your heart is privy to, that you did to David my father. Therefore the LORD shall return your wickedness on your own head.

1 Kings 4:18

Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

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

They brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: and over them Conaniah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was second.

2 Chronicles 31:13

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

2 Samuel 16:5

When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of the house of Saul came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out, and cursed still as he came.

2 Samuel 16:7

Shimei said when he cursed, "Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow!



2 Samuel 16:13

So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him, and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and threw dust.

2 Samuel 19:16

Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.

2 Samuel 19:18

A ferry boat went to bring over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he was come over the Jordan.

2 Samuel 19:21

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall Shimei not be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?"

2 Samuel 19:23

The king said to Shimei, "You shall not die." The king swore to him.

2 Samuel 21:21

When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, killed him.

Additions to Esther 1:1

In the second year of the reign of Ahasuerus the great, on the first day of the month of Nisan, Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, had a dream.



Additions to Esther 4:5

There was a certain Jew in Susa, the palatial city, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,

Esther 2:5

There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,

Exodus 6:17

The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.

Ezra 10:23

Of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same 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,

Numbers 3:18

These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.

Numbers 3:21

Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites.

Zechariah 12:13

the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;





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