23. Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.
24. Now therefore as the Lord lives, who has established me, and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.”
25. King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.
26. To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord the Lord’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”
27. So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to the Lord, that he might fulfill the Lord’s word, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
28. This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to the Lord’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar.
29. King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to the Lord’s Tent, and behold, he is by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall on him.”
30. Benaiah came to the Lord’s Tent, and said to him, “Thus says the king, ‘Come out!’”He said, “No; but I will die here.”Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.”
31. The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.
32. The Lord will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
33. So their blood will return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his offspring forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from the Lord.”