"Stolen water is sweeter. Stolen bread tastes better."

Her victims do not know that the people die who go to her house, that those who have already entered are now deep in the world of the dead.

When King David arrived at Bahurim, one of Saul's relatives, Shimei son of Gera, came out to meet him, cursing him as he came.

But one day a boy happened to see them, and he told Absalom; so they hurried off to hide in the house of a certain man in Bahurim. He had a well near his house, and they got down in it.

At the same time the Benjaminite Shimei son of Gera from Bahurim hurried to the Jordan to meet King David.

"There is also Shimei son of Gera, from the town of Bahurim in Benjamin. He cursed me bitterly the day I went to Mahanaim, but when he met me at the Jordan River, I gave him my solemn promise in the name of the LORD that I would not have him killed.