1 Kings 2:28-34

28Now the news came to Joab 1because Joab had followed Adonijah, 2though he had not followed Absalom. So Joab fled to the tent of the Lord and 3took hold of the horns of the altar.

29And it was reported to King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of the Lord, and 4was beside the altar. Then Solomon 5sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “6Go, 7execute him.”

30So Benaiah came to the tent of the Lord and said to him, “This is what the king has said: ‘Come out.’” But he said, “No, for I will die here.” So Benaiah brought back word to the king, saying, “This is what Joab spoke, and so he answered me.”

31And the king said to him, “8Do just as he has spoken, and 9execute him and bury him, 10so that you may remove from me and from my father’s house the blood which Joab shed without 11justification.

3212The Lord will return his blood on his own head, 13because he 14struck two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, while my father David did not know about it: 15Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and 16Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

3317So their blood shall return on the head of Joab and on the head of his 18descendants forever; but for David and his 19descendants, and his house and his throne, may there be peace from the Lord forever.”

34Then 20Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and 21struck him and put him to death, and he was buried at his own house 22in the wilderness.