1 Paralipomenon 2:38

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Dixitque Semei regi : Bonus sermo : sicut locutus est dominus meus rex, sic faciet servus tuus. Habitavit itaque in Semei in Jerusalem diebus multis.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Dixitque Semei regi: Bonus sermo: sicut locutus est dominus meus rex, sic faciet servus tuus. Habitavit itaque Semei in Jerusalem diebus multis.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Dixitque Semei regi: "Bonus sermo; sicut locutus est dominus meus rex, sic faciet servus tuus". Habitavit itaque Semei in Ierusalem diebus multis.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The saying: 1 Kings 20:4, 2 Kings 20:19

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Shimei said unto the king, the saying [is] good,.... It was an act of goodness in the king, and what was good, grateful, and acceptable to him; for being sent for by him, and knowing how he had used his father, and hearing of several traitors being put to death, he expected this would have been his case; and wherefore, instead of being put to death, was only obliged to leave his habitation in the country, and come and live at Jerusalem, a pleasant and delightful city, and the metropolis of the nation, it was very agreeable to him:

as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do; and he not only promised, but swore to it, which Solomon obliged him to, 1 Kings 2:42;

and Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days; he accordingly built or purchased a house in Jerusalem, and removed from Bahurim to it, where he lived for the space of three years, as follows.