25 And King Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he [a]smote him that he died.

26 ¶ Then the King said unto Abiathar the Priest, Go to Anathoth unto thine own [b]fields: for thou art [c]worthy of death: but I will not this day kill thee, because thou [d]barest the Ark of the Lord God before David my father, and because thou hast suffered in all, wherein my father hath been afflicted.

27 So Solomon cast out Abiathar from being Priest unto the Lord, that he might (A)fulfill the words of the Lord, which he spake against the house of Eli in Shiloh.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 2:25 Or, fell upon him.
  2. 1 Kings 2:26 Or, possessions.
  3. 1 Kings 2:26 Hebrew, man of death.
  4. 1 Kings 2:26 When he fled before Absalom, 2 Sam. 15:24.

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