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2 Samuel 16:12 "Perhaps the LORD will look on my affliction and return good to me instead of his cursing this day."

2 Samuel 16:14 The king and all the people who were with him arrived weary and he refreshed himself there. (NASB ©1995)

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And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.

cursed 2Sa 16:5,6

cast dust [heb] dusted him with dust Ac 23:23

It was an ancient custom, in those warm and arid countries, to lay the dust before a person of distinction, by sprinkling the ground with water. Dr. Pococke and the consul were treated with this respect when they entered Cairo. The same custom is alluded to in the well-known fable of Phaedrus, in which a slave is represented going before Augustus and officiously lay the dust. To throw dust in the air while a person was passing was therefore an act of great disrespect; to do so before a sovereign prince, an indecent outrage. But it is probable that Shimei meant more than disrespect and outrage to his afflicted king. Sir John Chardin informs us, that in the East, in general, those who demand justice against a criminal throw dust upon him, signifying that he ought to be put in the grave: and hence the common imprecation among the Turks and Persians, `Be covered with earth,' or `Earth be upon thy head.'

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Along Cast Continued Cursed Cursing David Dirt Dust Dusted Flung Hill Hill's Hillside Hill-side Opposite Over-against Parallel Revileth Road Sending Shimei Shim'e-i Showering Stones Stoneth Threw Throwing

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Cast Continued Cursed Cursing David Dust Flung Hill Hillside Hill-Side Opposite Over-Against Parallel Revileth Road Sending Shimei Shim'e-I Side Stones Stoneth Threw Throwing Way

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Cast Continued Cursed Cursing David Dust Flung Hill Hillside Hill-Side Opposite Over-Against Parallel Revileth Road Sending Shimei Shim'e-I Side Stones Stoneth Threw Throwing Way

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