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1 Kings 2:25-27
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1 Kings 2:25-27
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25 So King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he went to Adonijah and killed him.
Abiathar Sent Away and Joab Is Killed
26 Then the king said to Abiathar the religious leader, “Go to your own fields at Anathoth, for you should be put to death. But I will not have you killed at this time. Because you carried the special box of the Lord God in front of my father David. And you shared in all of my father’s suffering.” 27 So Solomon stopped Abiathar from being religious leader for the Lord any longer. This was done to keep the word of the Lord, which God had spoken about the family of Eli in Shiloh.
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