Verse Lens · Concise explanation
1 Kings 2:26 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 26. 26And 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.
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Quick Meaning
This verse opens the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech: “And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Abiathar is removed from priestly office.”
Abiathar is sent home rather than killed
This verse is one part of that explanation in 1 Kings 2:26–27. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- 1 Kings 2:26–27
Read 1 Kings 2:26 with 2:26–27. The selected wording supplies one opening in the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Removes Abiathar to Anathoth while acknowledging his ark service and suffering with David; interprets Abiathar's removal as fulfillment of the earlier word against Eli's house.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Abiathar is removed from priestly office,” 1 Kings 2:26 opens the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech through the wording “And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: 1 Kings 2:19–25 establishes this prior movement: Depicts Solomon honoring his mother with a seat at his right hand before she speaks; records Benaiah carrying out Solomon's execution order against Adonijah. 1 Kings 2:26–27 interprets, evaluates, or organizes what the preceding movement has established; that demonstrated relationship, rather than database adjacency alone, explains its placement.
Read 1 Kings 2:26–27 together
Why these verses belong together: Abiathar is removed from priestly office is the complete reviewed scene, prayer, oracle, list, or regnal notice bounded at 2:26–2:27.
Verse 26. 26 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.
Verse 27. 27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
What Remains True
Public power and worship remain accountable to truth, covenant faithfulness, affected people, and consequences rather than title, success, wealth, or majority support. This unit tests that truth through removes Abiathar to Anathoth while acknowledging his ark service and suffering with David; interprets Abiathar's removal as fulfillment of the earlier word against Eli's house. In 1 Kings 2:26, the concrete line “And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou…” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read 1 Kings 2:26–27 — Abiathar is removed from priestly officeSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: 1 Kings 2:26–27, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording and morphology used for lexical, grammatical, name, clause, and older-English checks; this is not a critical apparatus or historical proof.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 2:26–27
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: 1 Kings with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Only printed unit-level translation, lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, and verse-numbering notes; silence is not evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible 1 Kings PDF, printed pp. 586–589, translation and translator notes for 2:26–27
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