"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.'

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

"Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Wadi Cherith, that is near the Jordan.

So he went and did according to the word of the LORD; for he went and lived by the Wadi Cherith, that is near the Jordan.