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1 Kings 2:26-28
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26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property[a] in Anathoth. You deserve to die,[b] 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.”[c] 27 Solomon removed Abiathar from being a priest for the Lord, fulfilling the Lord’s message that he had pronounced against the family of Eli in Shiloh.

28 When the news reached Joab (for Joab had supported[d] Adonijah, although he had not supported Absalom), he[e] ran to the tent of the Lord and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar.[f]

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  1. 1 Kings 2:26 tn Or “field.”
  2. 1 Kings 2:26 tn Heb “you are a man of death,” an idiom.
  3. 1 Kings 2:26 tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”
  4. 1 Kings 2:28 tn Heb “turned after” (also later in this verse).
  5. 1 Kings 2:28 tn Heb “Joab.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  6. 1 Kings 2:28 sn Grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. The “horns” of the altar were the horn-shaped projections on the four corners of the altar (see Exod 27:2). By going to the holy place and grabbing hold of the horns of the altar, Joab was seeking asylum from Solomon.
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