1 Kings 2:26

Punishment of Abiathar (Not in Chronicles)

26. Get theeto Anathoth This city was in the tribe of Benjamin, and has been identified by Robinson with Anátaat the distance of 1¼ hours N.N.E. of Jerusalem. It is mentioned as a priest's city with suburbs in Joshua 21:18; 1 Chronicles 6:60, and Jeremiah was sprung from -the priests that were in Anathoth" (Jeremiah 1:1). Here Abiathar must have had some ground, and to this Solomon banished him. We find that the cousin of Jeremiah, Hanameel, possessed land at Anathoth, which Jeremiah purchased (Jeremiah 32:6-12).

worthy of death Hebrew, a man of death, deserving it. So in 1 Kings 20:42 -a man whom I appointed to utter destruction" is literally -the man of my doom," i.e. whom I had doomed.

thou barest the ark of the Lord Abiathar was with David in his flight before Absalom (2 Samuel 15:24-29) when the ark of God was carried away from Jerusalem, and he and Zadok bore it back again according to David's orders.

hast been afflicted Abiathar fled from Nob and came to David when he was pursued by Saul (1 Samuel 22:20), and also remained with him in the dangerous days which followed. See 1 Samuel 23:8-9.