⁷ As he cursed, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you murderer, you scoundrel!

¹³ Then two scoundrels came and sat opposite him and brought charges against Naboth before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.^(A)

⁹ Why did you despise^(A) the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down^(B) Uriah^(C) the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed^(D) him with the sword of the Ammonites.

¹⁵ In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down^(A) and die.^(B)”

¹⁶ So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were. ¹⁷ When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David’s army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died.

³⁷ So on that day all the people there and all Israel knew that the king had no part^(A) in the murder of Abner son of Ner.

¹⁷ Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked^(A) man that no one can talk to him.”

Eli’s Wicked Sons

¹² Eli’s sons were scoundrels; they had no regard^(A) for the Lord.