1 Kings 2
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1 Kings 2:28-35

28Now the news came to Joab, 1for Joab had followed Adonijah, 2although he had not followed Absalom. And Joab fled to the tent of the Lord and 3took 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 4sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “5Go, 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, “6Do as he has spoken and fall upon him and bury him, 7that you may remove from me and from my father’s house the blood which Joab shed without cause. 328The Lord will return his blood on his own head, 9because 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: 10Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and 11Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah. 3312So shall their blood return on the head of Joab and on the head of his 13descendants forever; but to David and his 14descendants and his house and his throne, may there be peace from the Lord forever.” 34Then 15Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him and put him to death, and he was buried at his own house 16in the wilderness. 3517The king appointed Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the army in his place, and the king appointed 18Zadok the priest 19in the place of Abiathar.

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 Kings 2:28 1 Kin 1:7 ↩
  2. 2. 1 Kings 2:28 2 Sam 17:25; 18:2 ↩
  3. 3. 1 Kings 2:28 1 Kin 1:50 ↩
  4. 4. 1 Kings 2:29 1 Kin 2:25 ↩
  5. 5. 1 Kings 2:29 Ex 21:14 ↩
  6. 6. 1 Kings 2:31 Ex 21:14 ↩
  7. 7. 1 Kings 2:31 Num 35:33; Deut 19:13; 21:8, 9 ↩
  8. 8. 1 Kings 2:32 Gen 9:6; Judg 9:24, 57; Ps 7:16 ↩
  9. 9. 1 Kings 2:32 2 Chr 21:13, 14 ↩
  10. 10. 1 Kings 2:32 2 Sam 3:27 ↩
  11. 11. 1 Kings 2:32 2 Sam 20:9, 10 ↩
  12. 12. 1 Kings 2:33 2 Sam 3:29 ↩
  13. 13. 1 Kings 2:33 Lit seed ↩
  14. 14. 1 Kings 2:33 Lit seed ↩
  15. 15. 1 Kings 2:34 1 Kin 2:25 ↩
  16. 16. 1 Kings 2:34 Josh 15:61; Matt 3:1 ↩
  17. 17. 1 Kings 2:35 1 Kin 4:4 ↩
  18. 18. 1 Kings 2:35 1 Chr 6:53; 24:3; 29:22 ↩
  19. 19. 1 Kings 2:35 1 Kin 2:27 ↩

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