1Ki 2:26 | NASB2020 | 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, “ ^aGo 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 ^{▼▼Lit day}time, because ^eyou carried the ark of the Lord ^{▼▼Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord}God before my father David, and because ^gyou were afflicted in everything with which my father was afflicted.”