Shimei

An ancient drama unfolds in three colorful scenes, with three major characters: a spiteful little bully by the name of Shimei; a king, David; and his military officer Abishai.

The Shepherd’s Song Dr. Lynn Anderson 1996

An ancient drama unfolds in three colorful scenes, with three major characters: a spiteful little bully by the name of Shimei; a king, David; and his military officer Abishai.

The Shepherd’s Song Dr. Lynn Anderson 1996

An ancient drama unfolds in three colorful scenes, with three major characters: a spiteful little bully by the name of Shimei; a king, David; and his military officer Abishai.

The Shepherd’s Song Dr. Lynn Anderson 1996

If you meddle with "Shimei," he steps out, and next week appears "Rab-shakeh," an unsavory wretch; and now, at any rate, you find out what good sense there was in Hezekiah's "Answer him not."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

If you meddle with "Shimei," he steps out, and next week appears

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

If you meddle with "Shimei," he steps out, and next week appears

The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Six of the most boring pages I have ever read describe the last words of King David see Samuel 23:1-7 as well as his dealings with Abner, the son of Ner, Amasa, the son of Jether, and Shimei and Barzillai—so tedious, these Torah-borers, that they're fascinating, an enormous joke, along the lines of the famous Ben Stein economics lecture in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

Raging Against Aging Henry Allen 2011

Shimei son of Gera witnessed this and “insulted [David] outrageously [nimrezet]” (I Kings 2: 8).

Bathsheba: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

Absalom was responsible for the deaths of Shimei son of Gera, Sheba son of Bichri, Ahitophel, Mephibosheth and Ish-bosheth.

Maacah the wife of David: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

Some say the modern Kegadol movement in Japan was set off by the injured action figure version of manga character Rei Ayanami (or Ryomou Shimei from Ikkitousen), who sports multiple bandages and a nifty eyepatch:

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