Discovery Box1 Kings 2:26-27 
Context2:26 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
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 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
5 tn Heb “fulfilling the word of the
6 tn Heb “over.”
7 tc The Old Greek translation includes after v. 35 some fourteen verses that are absent from the MT.
