1 Kings 2:25-27

Christian Standard Bible

²⁵ Then King Solomon dispatched Benaiah son of Jehoiada,^(A) who struck down Adonijah, and he died.

Abiathar’s Banishment

²⁶ The king said to the priest Abiathar,^(B) “Go to your fields in Anathoth.^(C) Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death today, since you carried the ark of the Lord God in the presence of my father David^(D) and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”^{(E) 27} So Solomon banished Abiathar from being the Lord’s priest, and it fulfilled the Lord’s prophecy he had spoken at Shiloh against Eli’s family.^(F)