1 Kings 2:25

Solomon Secures The Throne

²⁴ Now therefore as surely as the LORD liveth which hath established me and set me on the seat of David my father, and which hath made me a house as he promised me, Adonijah shall die this day." ²⁵ And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and smote him that he died. ²⁶ 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 kill thee, because thou hast borne the Ark of the Lord Jehovah before David my father, and because thou sufferest with my father in all his afflictions."

Put to Death

Adonijah

Benaiah

Jehoiada

Solomon

2 Samuel 8:18

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.

Judges 8:20-21

And he said unto Jether his eldest son, "Up, and slay them." But the lad drew not his sword, for he feared, because he was yet young.

1 Samuel 15:33

And Samuel said, "As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among other women." And so Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

2 Samuel 1:15

And David called one of his young men, and said, "Go and run upon him." And he smote him that he died.

2 Samuel 4:12

And David commanded his young men, and they slew them and cut off their hands and their feet and hanged them up by the pole in Hebron. And they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

1 Kings 2:31

And the king said, "Do even as he hath said: smite him and bury him, and take away the blood which Joab shed, causeless, from me and from the house of my father.

1 Kings 2:34

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and smote him and slew him and buried him in his own house in the wilderness.

1 Kings 2:46

And the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada: which went out and smote him that he died. And so was the kingdom settled in the hand of Solomon.