26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the Sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.”
26 And the king said to Abiathar the priest, Go to Anathoth, to thine own fields; for thou art worthy of deathD2079; but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou didst bear the ark of AdonaiD2080 Jehovah before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
death - Lit. 'a man of death.' Adonai - That is, 'the Lord.' see Note, Gen. 15.2.
26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou [art] worthy of deathK1763: 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.
worthy of death: Heb. a man of death.
26 And unto AbiatharH54 the priestH3548 saidH559 the kingH4428, GetH3212 thee to AnathothH6068, unto thine own fieldsH7704; for thou art worthyH376 of deathH4194: but I will not at this timeH3117 put thee to deathH4191, because thou barestH5375 the arkH727 of the LordH136 GODH3069 beforeH6440 DavidH1732 my fatherH1, and because thou hast been afflictedH6031 in all wherein my fatherH1 was afflictedH6031.
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