"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 Yahweh, saying, 'I will not put you to death with the sword.'

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

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

So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.