1 Kings 2:26-27

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property ¹  in Anathoth. You deserve to die, ²  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.” ³  2:27 Solomon dismissed Abiathar from his position as priest of the Lord, ⁴  fulfilling the decree of judgment the Lord made in Shiloh against the family of Eli. 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 Or “field.”

² tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

³ tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”

⁴ tn Heb “Solomon drove out Abiathar from being a priest to the Lord.”

⁵ tn Heb “fulfilling the word of the Lord which he spoke against the house of Eli in Shiloh.”

⁶ tn Heb “over.”

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