28 When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah though not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the Lord and took hold of the hornso of the altar. 29 King Solomon was told that Joab had fled to the tent of the Lord and was beside the altar.p Then Solomon ordered Benaiahq son of Jehoiada, “Go, strike him down!”

30 So Benaiah entered the tentr of the Lord and said to Joab, “The king says, ‘Come out!s’ ”

But he answered, “No, I will die here.”

Benaiah reported to the king, “This is how Joab answered me.”

31 Then the king commanded Benaiah, “Do as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so clear me and my whole family of the guilt of the innocent bloodt that Joab shed. 32 The Lord will repayu him for the blood he shed,v because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasaw son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army—were betterx men and more upright than he. 33 May the guilt of their blood rest on the head of Joab and his descendants forever. But on David and his descendants, his house and his throne, may there be the Lord’s peace forever.”

34 So Benaiahy son of Jehoiada went up and struck down Joabz and killed him, and he was buried at his home out in the country.