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1 Kings 2:26

in 1 Kings 2

Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death at this time, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord Jehovah before David my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.

KJV

And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.

This verse in 1 Kings 2

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The depriving of Abiathar was the fulfilling of the threatening against the house of Eli ( 1 Sam. ii. 30 ), for he was the last high priest of that family. It was now above eighty years since the ruin was threatened; but God's judgments, though not executed speedily, will be executed surely.

This site's exposition

Go back to your fields in Anathoth

Abiathar is spared execution for having carried the ark before David and shared his afflictions, the loyalty recorded at 2 Samuel 15:24-29. He is stripped of the priesthood and sent to his own fields at Anathoth. Jeremiah is later called from a priestly family at Anathoth in Jeremiah 1:1.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And unto Abiathar the priest said the king,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

For Anathoth and the allusions in this verse, see the margin reference.

The words behind it

31 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּלְאֶבְיָתָ֨רand to Abiathar

    uleevyatarH54 →30 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֜ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • אָמַ֣רhe said

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • הַמֶּ֗לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • עֲנָתֹת֙Anathoth

    ʾanatotH6068 →

  • לֵ֣ךְgo

    lekhH1980 →1546 times

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • שָׂדֶ֔יךָfields your

    sadeikhaH7704 →334 times

  • כִּ֛יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • אִ֥ישׁ[are] a man of

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • מָ֖וֶתdeath

    mavetH4194 →156 times

  • אָ֑תָּהyou

    ʾatahH859 →1094 times

  • וּבַיּ֨וֹםand on the day

    uvaiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַזֶּ֜ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • לֹ֣אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • אֲמִיתֶ֗ךָI will put to death you

    ʾamitekhaH4191 →839 times

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • נָשָׂ֜אתָyou carried

    nasataH5375 →656 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אֲר֨וֹן[the] ark of

    ʾaronH727 →202 times

  • אֲדֹנָ֤י[the] Lord

    ʾadonaiH136 →440 times

  • יְהֹוִה֙Yahweh

    yahwehH3069 →

  • לִפְנֵי֙<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • דָּוִ֣דDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • אָבִ֔יfather my

    ʾaviH1 →1212 times

  • וְכִ֣יand for

    vekhiH3588 →4482 times

  • הִתְעַנִּ֔יתָyou were afflicted

    hitanitaH6031 →82 times

  • בְּכֹ֥לin all

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶֽׁר־that

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • הִתְעַנָּ֖הhe was afflicted

    hitanahH6031 →82 times

  • אָבִֽי׃father my

    ʾaviH1 →1212 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Matthew 10:42

    And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 6:10

      For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.

    • Matthew 25:40

      And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’

    • Mark 9:41–42

      Indeed, if anyone gives you even a cup of water because you bear the name of Christ, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.

    • Matthew 18:10

      See that you do not look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father in heaven.

    • 2 Corinthians 9:6–15

      Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 26:16

    This thing you have done is not good. As surely as the LORD lives, all of you deserve to die, since you did not protect your lord, the LORD’s anointed. Now look around. Where…

    it leads to

    • Psalms 102:20

      to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,

    • 1 Samuel 26:9

      But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can lift a hand against the LORD’s anointed and be guiltless?”

    • 1 Samuel 26:11

      But the LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed. Instead, take the spear and water jug by his head, and let us go.”

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.