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Solomon removed Abiathar from being priest to the LORD because of his association with Adonijah, though he spared his life because he had carried the ark and shared David’s hardships (1 Kings 2:26-27). The text says this fulfilled the word of the LORD about the house of Eli (1 Kings 2:27). Zadok was put in Abiathar’s place as priest (1 Kings 2:35).
26To Abiathar the priest said the king, Get you 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 bear the ark of the Lord Yahweh before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.
27So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest to Yahweh, that he might fulfill the word of Yahweh, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.