2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property 3 in Anathoth. You deserve to die, 4 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.” 5
1 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
2 tn In the Hebrew text the name is spelled “Abijam” here and in 1 Kgs 15:1-8.
3 tn Or “field.”
4 tn Heb “you are a man of death.”
5 tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”