What have I to do... — Compare Matthew 8:29; John 2:4; and the similar complaint about the sons of Zeruiah in [Reference…

So let him curse. — This translation follows the margin of the Hebrew, as the Septuagint and Vulgate also do. David, thro…

And the king said, what have I to do with you, you sons of
Zeruiah ?
&c.] It seems as…

David bore Shimei's curses much better than Ziba's flatteries; by these he was led to make a wrong judgment about another, by those to make a right…