1 Kings 2:27–36

²⁷So Solomon removed Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, that he might ^mfulfill the word of the Lord which He spoke concerning the house of Eli at Shiloh.

²⁸Then news came to Joab, for Joab ⁿhad defected to Adonijah, though he had not defected to Absalom. So Joab fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and ^otook hold of the horns of the altar. ²⁹And King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to the tabernacle of the Lord; there he is, by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, ^pstrike him down.” ³⁰So Benaiah went to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him, “Thus says the king, ^q‘Come out!’ ”

And he said, “No, but I will die here.” And Benaiah brought back word to the king, saying, “Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.”

³¹Then the king said to him, ^r“Do as he has said, and strike him down and bury him, ^sthat you may take away from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood which Joab shed. ³²So the Lord ^twill return his ⁷blood on his head, because he struck down two men more righteous ^uand better than he, and killed them with the sword—^vAbner the son of Ner, the commander of the army of Israel, and ^wAmasa the son of Jether, the commander of the army of Judah—though my father David did not know it. ³³Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab and ^xupon the head of his descendants forever. ^yBut upon David and his descendants, upon his house and his throne, there shall be peace forever from the Lord.”

³⁴So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and struck and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. ³⁵The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army, and the king put ^zZadok the priest in the place of ^aAbiathar.

Shimei Executed

³⁶Then the king sent and called for ^bShimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and dwell there, and do not go out from there anywhere.