Abiathar’s Banishment

26 The king said to Abiathar the priest,(A) “Go to your fields in Anathoth.(B) Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death today, since you carried the ark of the Lord God in the presence of my father David(C) and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”(D) 27 So Solomon banished Abiathar from being the Lord’s priest, and it fulfilled the Lord’s prophecy He had spoken at Shiloh against Eli’s family.(E)

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26 To Abiathar(A) the priest the king said, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth.(B) You deserve to die, but I will not put you to death now, because you carried the ark(C) of the Sovereign Lord before my father David and shared all my father’s hardships.”(D) 27 So Solomon removed Abiathar from the priesthood of the Lord, fulfilling(E) the word the Lord had spoken at Shiloh about the house of Eli.

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