1 Kings 2:30-31

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, “1Do as he has spoken and fall upon him and bury him, 2that you may remove from me and from my father’s house the blood which Joab shed without cause.