1 Kings 2:23-34

23Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, “May God do so to me and more also, if Adonijah has 1not spoken this word against his own 2life. 24Now therefore, as the Lord lives, who has established me and set me on the throne of David my father and 3who has made me a house as He promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.” 25So King Solomon 4sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him so that he died.

26Then to Abiathar the priest the king said, “5Go to Anathoth to your own field, 6for you 7deserve to die; but I will not put you to death at this time, because 8you carried the ark of the Lord 9God before my father David, and because 10you were afflicted in everything with which my father was afflicted.” 27So Solomon dismissed Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, in order to fulfill 11the word of the Lord, which He had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

28Now the news came to Joab, 12for Joab had followed Adonijah, 13although he had not followed Absalom. And Joab fled to the tent of the Lord and 14took hold of the horns of the altar. 29It was told King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of the Lord, and behold, he is beside the altar. Then Solomon 15sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “16Go, fall upon him.” 30So Benaiah came to the tent of the Lord and said to him, “Thus the king has said, ‘Come out.’” But he said, “No, for I will die here.” And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “Thus spoke Joab, and thus he answered me.” 31The king said to him, “17Do as he has spoken and fall upon him and bury him, 18that you may remove from me and from my father’s house the blood which Joab shed without cause. 3219The Lord will return his blood on his own head, 20because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he and killed them with the sword, while my father David did not know it: 21Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and 22Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah. 3323So shall their blood return on the head of Joab and on the head of his 24descendants forever; but to David and his 25descendants and his house and his throne, may there be peace from the Lord forever.” 34Then 26Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him and put him to death, and he was buried at his own house 27in the wilderness.