Why hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord? He lay under the guilt of two crimes: of disobeying the king's express command, and violating his oath to God, which latter Solomon terms the oath of the Lord, because it was taken in the Lord's presence, and the Lord was called upon as a witness of it, and as the avenger of all such violations, and because the law of the Lord obliged him to the performance of it. The wickedness which thy heart is privy to For which thine own conscience accuseth thee, and there is no need of other witnesses. The Lord shall return God hath punished thee for thy former wickedness, by suffering thee to expose thyself to thy deserved death.
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1 Kings 2:43-44
43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?
44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;