1 Kings 2:22-27

2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him? ¹  Since he is my older brother, you should also request the kingdom for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”

2:23 King Solomon then swore an oath by the Lord, “May God judge me severely, ²  if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life! ³  2:24 Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty ⁴  for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!” 2:25 King Solomon then sent ⁵  Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he killed Adonijah. ⁶ 

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  2:27 Solomon dismissed Abiathar from his position as priest of the Lord, ¹⁰  fulfilling the decree of judgment the Lord made in Shiloh against the family of Eli. ¹¹ 

[2:22]  ¹ tn Heb “for Adonijah.”

[2:23]  ² tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”

[2:23]  ³ tn Heb “if with his life Adonijah has not spoken this word.”

[2:24]  ³ tn Heb “house.”

[2:25]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text adds, “by the hand of.”

[2:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he struck him and he died.”

[2:26]  ⁵ tn Or “field.”

[2:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

[2:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”

[2:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “Solomon drove out Abiathar from being a priest to the Lord.”

[2:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “fulfilling the word of the Lord which he spoke against the house of Eli in Shiloh.”