“Keep an eye on Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim who is with you. He uttered malicious curses against me the day I went to Mahanaim. But he came down to meet me at the Jordan River, and I swore to him by the Lord: ‘I will never kill you with the sword.’

The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan.

“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself at the Wadi Cherith where it enters the Jordan.

So he did what the Lord commanded. Elijah left and lived by the Wadi Cherith where it enters the Jordan.