1 Kings 2:38

1Ki 2:38 And Shimei said unto the king, The saying [is] good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.

Ver. 38. The saying is good: … so will thy servant do.] The false heart praiseth the law and promiseth obedience, but faileth in performance; here it "starteth aside, like a deceitful bow." {Psa 78:57} {See Trapp on "Psa 78:57"}

And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.] Till he had an occasion of doing otherwise. Augustine thanks God that the heart and temptation met not together.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

1Ki 2:38. The saying is good — Thy sentence is much more merciful than I expected or deserve. As my lord hath said, so will thy servant do — And it appears from 1Ki 2:42-43, that he not only promised this, but confirmed his promise by an oath, being required by Solomon so to do.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

38. many days] The LXX. has τρία ἔτη, three years, a reading evidently drawn from the next verse.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

And it came to pass, at the end of three years,.... He had dwelt at Jerusalem:

that two of the servants of Shimei ran away to Achish the son of Maachah king of Gath; and they told Shimei, saying, behold, thy servant be in Gath; he being a churlish, ill-natured man, always cursing or beating them, or imposing too hard service upon them, or not allowing them the necessaries of life; wherefore they broke away from him, and fled to Gath, and put themselves under the protection of the king of that place, who was now at peace with Israel, and a tributary to them: if this Achish was the same that was David's friend, who sheltered him when persecuted by, Saul, he must be an old man; for that was between forty or fifty years ago; and as he seems to be, since he is called the son of Maoch, Sa1 27:2; which may be thought to be the same with Maachah here.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The saying is good; thy sentence is much more merciful than I expected or deserved. So will thy servant do; and Shimei did not only promise it, but also swore to it; being required by Solomon to do so, as is manifest from 1Ki 2:42,43.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

And Shimei said to the king, The saying or thing, matter, rb; D; like logov% rJhma, in Greek (cf. Sache, in Germ., from sagen) means (1) word and (2) deed is good Shimei cannot complain of the condition, remembering what he had done (2Sa_15:5-7) and that Solomon was not bound by his father"s oath (2Sa_19:23) as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in obedience to this behest in Jerusalem many days.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Is good - Thy sentence is more merciful than I expected, or deserved.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.