The challenges of carrying out the wishes of our parents. Here the dying King David demands that his heir Solomon will punish Joab his one-time chief of staff for Joab’s killing of a two people that, though they were obstacles in the past to David, he nevertheless felt they should have not been killed. One as you see was fooled by Joab into showing him how one could remove a shoe as part of the refusal to carry out a leverite marriage if they were a paraplegic, and when he bent down to use his teeth to remove the shoe, Joab did him in. And on the other side of revenge, David called for Solomon to be compassionate to the son of Barzillai whose father had provided David sustenance when he was on the run. And he was also to forgive the Sanhedrin Shimei Ben Gera who had sided with Saul opposing David, but once David had triumphed, Shimei threw himself and his family at David’s feet begging for forgiveness. Though he didn’t trust Shimei, David knew that he had powerful followers, so he wanted his successor Solomon to get them on his side. The advice of our parents determining our behavior. Sometimes good advice. Sometime misdirected.