1 Kings 2:26-35

The king said to the priest Abiathar,  “Go to your fields in Anathoth.  Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death today, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD in the presence of my father David  and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”  So Solomon banished Abiathar from being the LORD’s priest, and it fulfilled the LORD’s prophecy he had spoken at Shiloh against Eli’s family.  The news reached Joab. Since he had supported Adonijah  but not Absalom,  Joab fled to the LORD’s tabernacle and took hold of the horns of the altar.  It was reported to King Solomon, “Joab has fled to the LORD’s tabernacle and is now beside the altar.” Then Solomon sent  Benaiah son of Jehoiada  and told him, “Go and strike him down! ”  So Benaiah went to the tabernacle and said to Joab, “This is what the king says: ‘Come out! ’ ”  But Joab said, “No, for I will die here.” So Benaiah took a message back to the king, “This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me.” The king said to him, “Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him in order to remove from me and from my father’s family the blood that Joab shed without just cause.  The LORD will bring back his own blood on his head because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, without my father David’s knowledge. With his sword, Joab murdered Abner  son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa  son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army. The responsibility for their deaths will come back to Joab and to his descendants  forever, but for David, his descendants, his dynasty, and his throne, there will be peace from the LORD forever.”  Benaiah son of Jehoiada  went up, struck down Joab, and put him to death. He was buried at his house in the wilderness.  Then the king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada in Joab’s place over the army,  and he appointed the priest Zadok in Abiathar’s place.