NET

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.”

Darby

26 And the king said to Abiathar the priest, Go to Anathoth, to thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death^D2079; but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou didst bear the ark of Adonai^D2080 Jehovah before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.

Darby Bible Notes

death - Lit. 'a man of death.' Adonai - That is, 'the Lord.' see Note, Gen. 15.2.

KJV

26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou [art] worthy of death^K1763: 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.

KJV Bible Notes

worthy of death: Heb. a man of death.