מלכים א ב׳:א׳-י׳

את אשר עשה לי. שהראה הספר ששלח דוד ביד אוריה, (במדרש רבי תנחומא שם):

[What] was done to me. By showing them the letter which Dovid had sent through Uryah,¹Uryah was one of Dovid’s generals. Dovid wanted Uryah killed so that he could marry Bas Sheva, Uryah’s wife. With Yoav’s assistance, he arranged to have Uryah placed in the front lines of the battle. When Uryah was killed, everyone blamed Yoav. Instead of protecting Dovid, Yoav betrayed him by disclosing that it was Dovid’s plan to place Uryah in the thick of the battle in order that he be killed. [according to] the Midrash Rabbi Tanchuma.

דמי מלחמה בשלום. שהיה להם שלום עמו, ולא היו נשמרים ממנו:

[And shed] the blood of war at a time of peace. Since they were at peace with him, they were not on guard against him.

בחגורתו אשר במתניו. שחגר חרבו מצומדת על מתניו, שלא כדרך החוגרים, בצאתו לקראת עמשא, ופיה למטה כדי שתפול, כמה שנאמר (שמואל ב כ ח): והוא יצא ותפול, וכשנפלה ונטלה, כסבור עמשא שלא נטלה אלא להגביהה מן הארץ, ולא נשמר מהחרב אשר ביד יואב:

On his belt which was on his loins. He had girded his sword, attached to his loins, not in the customary manner of those girding swords, when he went out to meet Amasa. [He placed the sword’s] opening downward so that it would fall out, as it is stated, “and he went out and it fell out.”²II Shmuel 20:8. Once it fell, he [Yo’av] retrieved it. Amasa presumed that he retrieved it only to pick it up from the ground, and he did not guard himself from the sword which was in Yo’av’s hand.

ובנעלו אשר ברגליו. את אבנר הרג בערמה, ששאלו גידמת היאך חולצת, כמה שנאמר (שם ג כז): ויטהו יואב אל תוך השער לדבר אתו 'בשלי', לשון 'של' נעלך:

And in his shoe that was on his feet. He killed Avner cunningly by asking him, “How does a woman who has no hands remove the shoes?”³During חליצה, the widow must remove the shoe of her deceased husband’s brother who does not want to marry her. as it is stated, “And Yo’av caused him to turn aside at the gate to speak with him בשלי.”⁴II Shmuel 3:27. [בשלי is] an expression of “remove [של] your shoes.”⁵Shemos 3:5.

ולא תורד שיבתו בשלום שאול. אל תניחהו למות מיתת עצמו וליפול בגיהנם:

And do not let his greying head go down to the grave in peace. Do not let him die a natural death [causing him] to fall into Gehinnom.⁶Dovid had Yoav’s ultimate welfare in mind.

קללה נמרצת. מפורשת, כמו (איוב טז ג): מה ימריצך, (שם ו כה): ומה נמרצו כמו מה נמלצו:

An explicit curse. [נמרצת⁷נמרצת is an acronym for the five ways that Shim’i cursed Dovid. He called Dovid an adulterer [=נואף], a Moavi [=מואבי], murderer [=רוצח], oppressor [=צורר], and an abomination [=תועבה]. See Maseches Shabbos105a. means] concise, as in, “what will bring clarity [ימריצך] to you,”⁸Iyov 16:3. [and as in,] “and how clear [נמרצו are right words],”⁹Ibid. 6:25. the same as an interpretation [נמלצו]¹⁰נמלצו is the equivalent of נמרצו because the ‘ר’ and the ‘ל’ are interchangeable..

כי איש חכם אתה. תן לבך למצוא לו עון מות בשביל דבר אחר, וזהו וידעת את אשר תעשה לו:

For you are a wise man. Turn your attention to find for him a capital iniquity on account of another matter. This is [what it means by], “You will know how to deal with him.”