Abiathar’s Banishment

²⁶ The king said to Abiathar the priest,^(A) “Go to your fields in Anathoth.^(B) 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^(C) and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”^(D)

1 The words of Jeremiah,^(A) the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests living in Anathoth^(B) in the territory of Benjamin.

²¹ Therefore, here is what the Lord says concerning the people of Anathoth^(A) who want to take your life. They warn, “You must not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, or you will certainly die at our hand.”

²³ They will have no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth^(A) in the year of their punishment.”