1 Kings 2:9

9. His hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood Dr. Kennicott tries to make this passage mean precisely the opposite of what it says by connecting it with the first sentence of the verse, and understanding the negative in that sentence to be carried over and implied in this. But the passages he quotes as grammatical parallels are not at all relevant, for their connexion is so close that no one can mistake the meaning, whilst here the two sentences he proposes to link together in the same way are separated by two intervening affirmative sentences. Then, the ground of this untenable criticism is the assumption that David desired to bind Solomon under the same oath to protect the life of Shimei that he himself had made at Jordan. 2 Samuel 19:18. But if the honour and dignity of the kingdom called for the life of the bloody Joab, so did it also for the punishment of this blasphemous Benjamite; and this David’s words most clearly imply. He leaves it, however, to Solomon’s wise judgment to decide what his penalty shall be; and Solomon, though at first disposed to let him live and die in peace, was at length obliged in justice to bring down his gray head to the grave with blood. See 1 Kings 2:36-46.