John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 16:7
And thus said Shimei, when he cursed, come out, come out ,.... Or rather, "go out, go out" F20 צא צא "egredere, egredere", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.; ; that is, out of the nation, where he deserved not to live, as he judged, and out of the kingdom, which he had usurped, as he supposed; and the repeating the words not only denotes his vehement desire to have him gone, but the haste he should make to get out, or he was liable to be overtaken by Absalom and his forces; upbraiding... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 16:5-14
We here find how David bore Shimei's curses much better than he had borne Ziba's flatteries. By the latter he was brought to pass a wrong judgment on another, by the former to pass a right judgment on himself. The world's smiles are more dangerous than its frowns. Observe here, I. How insolent and furious Shimei was, and how his malice took occasion from David's present distress to be so much the more outrageous. David, in his flight, had come to Bahurim, a city of Benjamin in or near which... read more