Discovery Box1 Kings 2:22 
Context2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him? 1 Since he is my older brother, you should also request the kingdom for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”
1 Kings 2:26-27
Context2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property 2 in Anathoth. You deserve to die, 3 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.” 4 2:27 Solomon dismissed Abiathar from his position as priest of the Lord, 5 fulfilling the decree of judgment the Lord made in Shiloh against the family of Eli. 6
1 tn Heb “for Adonijah.”
2 tn Or “field.”
3 tn Heb “you are a man of death.”
4 tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”
5 tn Heb “Solomon drove out Abiathar from being a priest to the
6 tn Heb “fulfilling the word of the
