26 Then to Abiathar the priest the king said, “(A)Go to Anathoth to your own field, (B)for you [a]deserve to die; but I will not put you to death at this [b]time, because (C)you carried the ark of the Lord [c]God before my father David, and because (D)you were afflicted in everything with which my father was afflicted.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 2:26 Lit are a man of death
  2. 1 Kings 2:26 Lit day
  3. 1 Kings 2:26 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord

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