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Benaiah receives Solomon’s grave instructions in the royal court. No flashback violence or visible divine figure.
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1 Kings 2:31-33

Solomon confirms the order

The Kingdom Is Established · 1 Kings 2

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31Then the king said to him, “Do as he has said, and strike him down and bury him, and remove from me and from my father’s house the innocent blood that Joab shed.”

32And Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword while my father David did not know it: Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

33So their blood shall return on the head of Joab and on the head of his offspring forever, but for David and for his offspring and for his house and for his throne, there shall be peace forever from Yahweh.

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