Anathoth. Compare Joshua 21:18.
fields. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "estate".
worthy of death. Hebrew idiom. "a man of death". doomed to death. Hebrew. 'ish. App-14.
Lord GOD. Adonai Jehovah. App-4. (2).
26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthyf of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.