1 Kings 2:27 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

1 Kings 2:27

25 So King Solomon sent by the hand of ^aBenaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he struck him down, and he died.

Abiathar Exiled, Joab Executed

26 And to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to ^aAnathoth, to your own fields, for¹ you are deserving of death; but I will not put you to death at this time, ^bbecause you carried the ark of the Lord God before my father David, and because you were afflicted every time my father was afflicted.”

27 So Solomon removed Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, that he might ^afulfill the word of the Lord which He spoke concerning the house of Eli at Shiloh.

28 Then news came to Joab, for Joab ^ahad defected to Adonijah, though he had not defected to Absalom. So Joab fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and ^btook hold of the horns of the altar.

29 And King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to the tabernacle of the Lord; there he is, by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, ^astrike him down.”

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unto Abiathar the priest said the king—This functionary, as the counsellor or accomplice of Adonijah, had deserved to share his fate. But partly from regard to his priestly dignity, and partly from his long associations with the late king, Solomon pronounced on him the mitigated sentence of banishment to his country estate at Anathoth, and thereby, as God's vicegerent, deprived him of his office and its emoluments. The sacred writer notices the remarkable fulfilment, Abiathar's degradation from the high priesthood (see on I Kings 4:4), of the doom denounced against the house of Eli (I Samuel 2:30).

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Kings 2:27:

1 Samuel 2:27
1 Chronicles 24:3
Jeremiah 1:1
Ezekiel 40:46

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