And look, you have with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite of Bahurim; he is the one who cursed me with a sinister curse the day I went to Mahanaim. But he came down to meet me at the Jordan [on my return], and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

In the plain of the Jordan [River] the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

“Go from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan [River].

So he went and did in accordance with the word of the Lord; he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.