2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property 7 in Anathoth. You deserve to die, 8 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.” 9
1 tn Heb “your blood will be upon your head.”
2 tn Heb “but Jeroboam arose and ran away to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt.”
3 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”
4 tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”
5 tn Heb “here or there.”
6 tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”
4 tn Or “field.”
5 tn Heb “you are a man of death.”
6 tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”