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1 Kings 2:24-26
New English Translation
1 Kings 2:24-26
New English Translation
24 Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty[a] for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!” 25 King Solomon then sent[b] Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he killed Adonijah.[c]
26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property[d] in Anathoth. You deserve to die,[e] but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the Sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.”[f]
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- 1 Kings 2:24 tn Heb “house.”
- 1 Kings 2:25 tn The Hebrew text adds, “by the hand of.”
- 1 Kings 2:25 tn Heb “and he struck him and he died.”
- 1 Kings 2:26 tn Or “field.”
- 1 Kings 2:26 tn Heb “you are a man of death,” an idiom.
- 1 Kings 2:26 tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”
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