It is curious to find Abiathar in this list of princes, after what has been said of his disgrace 1Ki 2:27, 1 Kings 2:35. Some have supposed that after a while Solomon pardoned him. Perhaps the true explanation is that the historian here enumerates all those who were accounted “princes” in any part of Solomon’s reign.
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1 Kings 4:4
4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests: