1Ki 2:26 | NASB1995 | STEP | Then to Abiathar the priest the king said , “ Go to Anathoth to your own field , for you deserve to die ; but I will not put you to death at this time , because you carried the ark of the Lord God before my father David , and because you were afflicted in everything with which my father was afflicted .”

1 Kings 2:26

26 Then to Abiathar the priest the king said, ^a“Go to Anathoth to your own field, ^bfor you ^{▼▼ Lit are a man of death}deserve to die; but I will not put you to death at this time, because ^dyou carried the ark of the Lord ^{▼▼ Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord}God before my father David, and because ^fyou were afflicted in everything with which my father was afflicted.”