And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord Jehovah before David my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
Also þe kyng seide to Abiathar, preest, Go thou in to Anatot, to thi feeld; and soþeli thou art a man of deeth, þat is, worthi þe deeth, for conspiryng ayens me, and þe ordynaunce of God, and of my fadir; but to dai Y schal not sle þee, for thou barist þe arke of þe Lord God bifor Dauid, my fadir, and thou suffridist trauele in alle thingis, in whiche my fadir trauelide.