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26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property[a] in Anathoth. You deserve to die,[b] but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the Sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.”[c]

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  1. 1 Kings 2:26 tn Or “field.”
  2. 1 Kings 2:26 tn Heb “you are a man of death,” an idiom.
  3. 1 Kings 2:26 tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”