1 Kings 2:26 meaning and explanation
Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death at this time, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”
1 Kings 2:26, Berean Standard Bible
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Solomon speaks these words to Abiathar, the priest who had supported Adonijah's failed attempt to take the throne. Treason deserved death, yet Solomon spares him and sends him to his fields in Anathoth, a priestly town near Jerusalem.
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