I Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 345

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20 21 22 Solomon to speak to him about Aéoniah, and the king arose to meet her, and bowed to her, and then sat on his throne, and they placed a, cushion for the mother of the king, and she sat at his right hand, and I would ask one iittle request Then Wiil you give Abishag the Shunemite to Adoniah But King Solomon replied audsaid

But why do you ask Abishag the Shunamite for Adorxiah? Ask the kingship for him,··—for he is my elder brother;-——and for Abiathar the Priest, and for j’oab the son of Then King Solomon swore bythe

May GOD do so to me, and more than that, if Adoniah has not spoken this speech for his life! So now by the life of the Even-uvruo Who formed me, and placed me upon the throne of David my father, and Who made a house for me, Adoniah shall die Then King Solomon sent by the

hand of Beniah—ben-}hoiadah, who struck him,··—and he died. llriathar Qzpuszh mm `§mtislysb. 26 28 And he ordered Abiathar the

Go to Anathoth your estate, for you are a dead man, but I will

not kill you to~day, because you served the altar of the High LORD before David my father, and because you suffered in all my father suffered? Solomon also expelled Abiathar

from being priest to the _EvER~ L1v1NG,thus fulfilling the word of the EVER-1.1v1NG which He spoke about the house of Eli, at Shiloh. Qual: Bins in tbz Qltar for §mizrti¤n. When the report of this came to

]’oab,—-for ]’oab had inclined after Adoniah, although he had not in- clined after Absalom,-·he fled to the Hall of the Even-Livmo, and seized the horns of the altar. But it was reported to King Solomon that ]’oab had fled to the Hall of the EVER- L1v1NG, and that he was at the side of the altar; so the king sent Go! Execute him! 33 Beniah accordingly went to the

Hall of the Even·1.1vn~ze, and said to The king orders you to come! N 0, for I shall be Beniah consequently returned the

]’oab says thus, and by it I am prevented. Do

as I have ordered S and execute him, and bury him, and take away the innocent blood ]’oab shed from off me, and from off my father's house. For the Even-LIVING will return his blood on his head who murdered the two good men who were better than himself, and murdered them with the sword,-——(but my father David knew it not,)~——Abner the son of Ner, the Commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa-ben-]ether, commander of the army of judah, and the blood of both of them is on the head of ]’oab, and the head of his race for ever. But to David and his race, and house, and throne, may there be peace for ever from the Evax·1,1vmG.' Beniah-ben—]hoiadah consequently 34 went and struck and killed, and buried him at his home in the pas- tures; and the king appointed 35 Beniah-ben-jhoiadah to be over the army instead of him. The king also appointed Zadok as priest in place of Abiathar. M12 fate nf Sbzmai, mlm rnrsrh guhib. Then the king sent and summoned 36 Shemai, and said to him, “ Build yourself a house in jerusalem, and reside there, and do not go out from there whatever happens. For it shall be, that on the day you go out, and pass the brook of Kedron,—be certain that you shall die.-—-Your blood will be on your own head} And Shemai replied to the king,

‘ What you have said is good, your Majesty. Your servant will do it.’ And Shernai resided in jerusalem some years. (e.c. 1011.) But at the end of three years two

of his slaves ran away from Shemai to Akish, the son of Makah, who had been king of Gath, and it was Your Shemai therefore 345 37 39