1 Kings 2:32

And the Lord shall return [ LXX . ἐπέστρεψε , returns, or returned] his blood [ LXX . τὸ αἷμα τῆς ἀδικίας αὐτοῦ , i.e; the blood he had shed. Cf. 1 Kings 2:33 , 1 Kings 2:44 ] upon his own head, who fell upon [same word as in 1 Kings 2:29 , 1 Kings 2:31 . So that it was strictly a retaliation. The lex talionis was carried out to the letter] two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing . [Heb. "and my father David knew not," i.e; was not privy thereto. Solomon thinks of the unjust suspicions which these crimes cast upon his father.]