It came about that at the end of three years, two servants of Shimei ran away to Achish son of Maacah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your servants are in Gath.”
He went out to make war with the Philistines, and he broke through the walls at Gath and Jabneh and Ashdod. Then he built cities in Ashdod and among the Philistines.