1 Kings 2:39

"And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants are in Gath. And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his servants; and Shimei went and brought his servants from Gath. And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again. And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not adjure thee by Jehovah, and protest unto thee, saying, Know for certain, that on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, thou shalt surely die? and thou saidest unto me, The saying that I have heard is good. Why then hast thou not kept the oath of Jehovah, and the commandment that I have charged thee with? The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thy heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore Jehovah shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head. But king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before Jehovah forever. So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell upon him, so that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon."

"And the throne of David shall be established before Jehovah forever" (1 Kings 2:45). It is quite likely that the inspired writer of Kings, and especially Solomon himself, appropriated this promise from 2 Samuel 7 as personally applicable to the earthly dynasty of David without realizing the CONDITIONAL NATURE of that promise as it applied to David's temporal dynasty.

"And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon" (1 Kings 2:46). "Indeed it was! But the reader feels exhausted rather than satisfied. What a sad contrast is here with the magnanimity of the first king (1 Samuel 11:11-15). But Israel should have expected this change. Kingdoms `like the nations' cannot be run on sentiment; and Solomon the son of the palace harem had not come up the hard way, as had Saul and David.."[16]