1 Kings 2:35

2:35 The king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada to take his place at the head of ¹  the army, and the king appointed Zadok the priest to take Abiathar’s place. ² 

1 Kings 2:2

2:2 “I am about to die. ³  Be strong and become a man!

1 Kings 8:17-18

8:17 Now my father David had a strong desire ⁴  to build a temple to honor the Lord God of Israel. ⁵  8:18 The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me. ⁶ 

1 Kings 20:25

20:25 Muster an army like the one you lost, with the same number of horses and chariots. ⁷  Then we will fight them in the plains; we will certainly overpower them.” He approved their plan and did as they advised. ⁸ 

1 Kings 20:1

Ben Hadad Invades Israel

20:1 Now King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled all his army, along with thirty-two other kings with their horses and chariots. He marched against Samaria ⁹  and besieged and attacked it. ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 1:5-6

1:5 Now Adonijah, son of David and Haggith, ¹¹  was promoting himself, ¹²  boasting, ¹³  “I will be king!” He managed to acquire ¹⁴  chariots and horsemen, as well as fifty men to serve as his royal guard. ¹⁵  1:6 (Now his father had never corrected ¹⁶  him ¹⁷  by saying, “Why do you do such things?” He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom. ¹⁸ )

Ezekiel 44:15

The Levitical Priests

44:15 “‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok ¹⁹  who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the sovereign Lord.

¹ tn Heb “over.”

² tc The Old Greek translation includes after v. 35 some fourteen verses that are absent from the MT.

³ tn Heb “going the way of all the earth.”

⁴ tn Heb “and it was with the heart of David my father.”

⁵ tn Heb “to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.” The word “name” in the OT sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

⁶ tn Heb “Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart.”

⁷ tn Heb “And you, you muster an army like the one that fell from you, horse like horse and chariot like chariot.”

⁸ tn Heb “he listened to their voice and did so.”

⁹ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

¹⁰ tn Heb “and he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.”

¹¹ tn Heb “son of Haggith,” but since this formula usually designates the father (who in this case was David), the translation specifies that David was Adonijah’s father.

¹² tn Heb “lifting himself up.”

¹³ tn Heb “saying.”

¹⁴ tn Or “he acquired for himself.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “to run ahead of him.”

¹⁶ tn Or “disciplined.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “did not correct him from his days.” The phrase “from his days” means “from his earliest days,” or “ever in his life.” See GKC 382 §119.w, n. 2.

¹⁸ tn Heb “and she gave birth to him after Absalom.” This does not imply they had the same mother; Absalom’s mother was Maacah, not Haggith (2 Sam 3:4).

¹⁹ sn Zadok was a descendant of Aaron through Eleazar (1 Chr 6:50-53), who served as a priest during David’s reign (2 Sam 8:17).