1 Kings 2:29-31

International Standard Version

²⁹ Somebody informed King Solomon, “Joab just ran to the Lord’s tent and now he’s standing beside the altar!”

But Solomon ordered Jehoiada’s son Benaiah, “Go kill him!”

³⁰ So Benaiah went into the Lord’s tent and told Joab,^[a] “The king orders you to come out!”

“No,” Joab said, “I’d rather die here!”

So Benaiah went and informed the king, “This is how Joab answered me.”

³¹ The king replied to him, “Do just what he asked. Kill him and bury him so that you may remove from me and from my father’s household the guilt that Joab shed needlessly.