1 Kings 2:25-27

International Standard Version

²⁵ So King Solomon sent for Jehoiada’s son Benaiah, who attacked and killed Adonijah.^[a]

²⁶ The king also told Abiathar the priest, “Go home to Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I won’t kill you today, because you carried the ark of the Lord God before my father David and because you shared all the troubles that my father went through.” ²⁷ So Solomon fired Abiathar as the Lord’s priest, thus fulfilling the promise that the Lord had spoken in Shiloh concerning Eli’s household.^[b]