1 Kings 2:25-26

2:25 King Solomon then sent ¹  Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he killed Adonijah. ² 

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property ³  in Anathoth. You deserve to die, ⁴  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.” ⁵ 

1 Kings 2:35

2:35 The king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada to take his place at the head of ⁶  the army, and the king appointed Zadok the priest to take Abiathar’s place. ⁷ 

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¹ tn The Hebrew text adds, “by the hand of.”

² tn Heb “and he struck him and he died.”

³ tn Or “field.”

⁴ tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

⁵ tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”

⁶ tn Heb “over.”

⁷ tc The Old Greek translation includes after v. 35 some fourteen verses that are absent from the MT.