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1 Kings 2:28-34

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28 When the news came to Joab--for Joab 1had supported Adonijah although 2he had not supported Absalom--Joab fled to the tent of the LORD and caught hold of the 3horns of the altar.
29 And when it was told King Solomon, "Joab has fled to the tent of the LORD, and behold, he is beside the altar," Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, "Go, strike him down."
30 So Benaiah came to the tent of the LORD and said to him, "The king commands, 'Come out.'" But he said, "No, I will die here." Then Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, "Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me."
31 The king replied to him, 4"Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him, 5and thus take away from me and from my father's house the guilt for the blood that Joab shed without cause.
32 The LORD will 6bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men 7more righteous and better than himself, 8Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and 9Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
33 10So shall their blood come back on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever. But for David and for his descendants and for his house and for his throne there shall be peace from the LORD forevermore."
34 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and struck him down and put him to death. And he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
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1 Kings 2:28-34 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST KING 2

This chapter gives an account of the charge David gave to his son Solomon, a little before his death, to walk in the ways of the Lord, 1Ki 2:1-4; and of some instructions delivered to him concerning some particular persons he should either show favour to, or execute justice on, 1Ki 2:5-9; and the next account in it is concerning his death and burial, and the years of his reign, 1Ki 2:10,11; after which it relates an address of Bathsheba to Solomon in favour of Adonijah, which was refused, and the issue of it was his death, 1Ki 2:12-25; and the deposition of Abiathar from the priesthood, 1Ki 2:26,27; and the putting of Joab to death for his treason and murders, 1Ki 2:28-34; in whose post Benaiah was put, as Zadok was in the place of Abiathar, 1Ki 2:35; and lastly the confinement of Shimei in Jerusalem, who had cursed David, 1Ki 2:36-38; who upon transgressing the orders given him was put to death, 1Ki 2:39-46.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 10

  • 1. 1 Kings 1:7
  • 2. 2 Samuel 17:25; 2 Samuel 18:2
  • 3. 1 Kings 1:50
  • 4. [Exodus 21:14]
  • 5. Numbers 35:33; Deuteronomy 19:13; Deuteronomy 21:8, 9
  • 6. See Judges 9:24
  • 7. 2 Chronicles 21:13
  • 8. ver. 5; 2 Samuel 3:27
  • 9. 2 Samuel 20:9, 10
  • 10. [See ver. 32 above]
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