Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera the Benjamite, of Bahurim; now it was he who cursed me with a violent curse on the day I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

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

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

So he went and did according to the word of the Lord, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.