1 Kings 2:25-27

International Children’s Bible

²⁵ So King Solomon gave orders to Benaiah son of Jehoiada. And he went out and killed Adonijah.

²⁶ Then King Solomon said to Abiathar the priest, “I should kill you. But I will allow you to go back to your home in Anathoth. I will not kill you now because you helped to carry the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord God while marching with my father David. And I know you shared in all of the hard times with my father.” ²⁷ So Solomon removed Abiathar from being a priest to the Lord. This happened as the Lord had said it would. He had said this about the priest Eli and his family in Shiloh.