27. So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to the Lord, that he might fulfil the Lord’s word, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
28. This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to the Lord’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar.
29. King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to the Lord’s Tent, and behold, he is by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall on him.”
30. Benaiah came to the Lord’s Tent, and said to him, “Thus says the king, ‘Come out!’”He said, “No; but I will die here.”Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.”
31. The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.
32. The Lord will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.