1 Kings 4:4

4:4 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was commander of ¹  the army.

Zadok and Abiathar were priests.

1 Kings 1:26

1:26 But he did not invite me – your servant – or Zadok the priest, or Benaiah son of Jehoiada, or your servant Solomon.

1 Kings 2:25

2:25 King Solomon then sent ²  Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he killed Adonijah. ³ 

1 Kings 2:34

2:34 So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and executed Joab; ⁴  he was buried at his home in the wilderness.

1 Kings 1:8

1:8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s elite warriors ⁵  did not ally themselves ⁶  with Adonijah.

1 Kings 1:32

1:32 King David said, “Summon Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, ⁷  and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” They came before the king,

1 Kings 1:36

1:36 Benaiah son of Jehoiada responded ⁸  to the king: “So be it! ⁹  May the Lord God of my master the king confirm it! ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 2:35

2:35 The king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada to take his place at the head of ¹¹  the army, and the king appointed Zadok the priest to take Abiathar’s place. ¹² 

1 Kings 2:46

2:46 The king then gave the order to Benaiah son of Jehoiada who went and executed Shimei. ¹³ 

So Solomon took firm control of the kingdom. ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 1:38

1:38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites ¹⁵  went down, put Solomon on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon.

1 Kings 1:44

1:44 The king sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites and they put him on the king’s mule.

1 Kings 2:29

2:29 When King Solomon heard ¹⁶  that Joab had run to the tent of the Lord and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, ¹⁷  “Go, strike him down.”

¹ tn Heb “was over.”

² tn The Hebrew text adds, “by the hand of.”

³ tn Heb “and he struck him and he died.”

³ tn Heb “struck him and killed him.” The referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Or “bodyguard” (Heb “mighty men”).

⁵ tn Heb “were not.”

⁵ sn Summon…Nathan. Nathan must have left the room when Bathsheba reentered.

⁶ tn Heb “answered and said.”

⁷ tn Or “Amen.”

⁸ tn Heb “So may the Lord God of my master the king say.”

⁷ tn Heb “over.”

⁸ tc The Old Greek translation includes after v. 35 some fourteen verses that are absent from the MT.

⁸ tn “The king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada and he went out and struck him down and he died.”

⁹ tn “And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.”

⁹ sn The Kerethites and Pelethites were members of David’s royal guard (see 2 Sam 8:18). The Kerethites may have been descendants of an ethnic group originating in Crete.

¹⁰ tn Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”

¹¹ tn Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”