Discovery Box1 Kings 2:25-26 
Context2:25 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
Context2:35 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
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.
