11:002:025 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah
the son of
Jehoiada;
and he fell upon him that he died.
11:002:026 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king,
Get thee to
Anathoth,
unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death:
but
I will not at this time put thee to death, because
thou
barest
the ark of the lord God before David my father,
and
because
thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was
afflicted.
11:002:027 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being
priest unto the
lord;
that he might fulfil the word of the lord, which
he
spake
concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
11:002:028 Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab
had turned after Adonijah,
though
he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto
the
tabernacle
of the lord, and caught hold on the horns of the
altar.
11:002:029 And it was told king Solomon that Joab
was fled unto the
tabernacle
of the lord; and, behold, he is by the altar.
Then
Solomon
sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall
upon
him.
11:002:030 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the
lord, and said unto
him,
Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said,
Nay; but I
will
die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again,
saying,
Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.
11:002:031 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath
said, and fall upon
him,
and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent
blood,
which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my
father.
11:002:032 And the lord shall return his blood
upon his own head, who
fell
upon two men more righteous and better than he, and
slew
them
with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof,
to
wit,
Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel,
and
Amasa
the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
11:002:033 Their blood shall therefore return upon
the head of Joab, and
upon
the head of his seed for ever: but upon David,
and upon
his
seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall
there
be
peace for ever from the lord.
11:002:034 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up,
and fell upon him, and
slew
him: and he was buried in his own house in the
wilderness.
11:002:035 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
in his room over
the
host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in
the room of
Abiathar.
11:002:036 And the king sent and called for Shimei,
and said unto him,
Build
thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go
not
forth
thence any whither.


