Abiathar Exiled, Joab Executed

26 And to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to (A)Anathoth, to your own fields, for [a]you are deserving of death; but I will not put you to death at this time, (B)because you carried the ark of the Lord God before my father David, and because you were afflicted every time my father was afflicted.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 2:26 Lit. you are a man of death

26 To Abiathar(A) the priest the king said, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth.(B) You deserve to die, but I will not put you to death now, because you carried the ark(C) of the Sovereign Lord before my father David and shared all my father’s hardships.”(D)

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27 So Solomon removed Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, that he might (A)fulfill the word of the Lord which He spoke concerning the house of Eli at Shiloh.

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27 So Solomon removed Abiathar from the priesthood of the Lord, fulfilling(A) the word the Lord had spoken at Shiloh about the house of Eli.

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