He cast stones. — The road appears to have led along the side of a narrow ravine, on the opposite side of which (see 2 Samuel 16:9, “let me go over”) Shimei kept along with the fugitives, out of reach, and yet easily heard, and able to annoy them with stones.
Related Commentaries of 2 Samuel 16:6
2 Samuel 16:6
6 And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.