¹⁸ Anathoth with its pasturelands, and Almon with its pasturelands—four cities.

Abiathar’s Banishment

²⁶ The king said to the priest Abiathar,^(A) “Go to your fields in Anathoth.^(B) 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^(C) and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”^(D)

⁷ Watch! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy my field in Anathoth^(A) for yourself, for you own the right of redemption^(B) to buy it.’