24. The lord has confirmed me and placed me on the throne of my father, David; he has established my dynasty as he promised. So as surely as the lord lives, Adonijah will die this very day!”
25. So King Solomon ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada to execute him, and Adonijah was put to death.
26. Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your home in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not kill you now, because you carried the Ark of the Sovereign lord for David my father and you shared all his hardships.”
27. So Solomon deposed Abiathar from his position as priest of the lord, thereby fulfilling the prophecy the lord had given at Shiloh concerning the descendants of Eli.
28. Joab had not joined Absalom’s earlier rebellion, but he had joined Adonijah’s rebellion. So when Joab heard about Adonijah’s death, he ran to the sacred tent of the lord and grabbed on to the horns of the altar.