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1 Kings 1:32

in 1 Kings 1

Then King David said, “Call in for me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” So they came before the king.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And king David said, Call to me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.

KJV

And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.

This verse in 1 Kings 1

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
And King David said, call me Zadok the priest,.... Not Abiathar the high priest, for he had joined Adonijah; and besides Zadok was David's favourite priest, and for him the high priesthood was designed, as it was in a little time translated to him: and Nathan the prophet; who very probably went out of the room when Bathsheba was called in: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; the captain of his guards: and they came before the king; who it is very likely sat up in his bed, and they stood around him.

This site's exposition

Call in for me Zadok the priest

on 1 Kings 1:32-33

David summons the three men Adonijah's guest list had excluded, Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet and Benaiah. Solomon is to ride the king's own mule, a mount reserved to the reigning king. Riding it to Gihon is itself a public claim before a word of ceremony is spoken.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

The combination of the high priest, the prophet, and the captain of the bodyguard (the Cherethites and Pelethites, 1Ki 1:38), would show the people that the proceedings had the king’s sanction. The order of the names marks the position of the persons with respect to the matter in hand.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶר׀and he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • הַמֶּ֣לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • דָּוִ֗דDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • קִרְאוּ־summon

    kiru-H7121 →733 times

  • לִ֞יfor me

    li

  • לְצָד֤וֹק<to> Zadok

    letzadokH6659 →53 times

  • הַכֹּהֵן֙the priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • וּלְנָתָ֣ןand <to> Nathan

    ulenatanH5416 →41 times

  • הַנָּבִ֔יאthe prophet

    hanavi'H5030 →314 times

  • וְלִבְנָיָ֖הוּand <to> Benaiah

    velivnayahuH1141 →42 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • יְהוֹיָדָ֑עJehoiada

    yehoyada'H3077 →51 times

  • וַיָּבֹ֖אוּand they came

    vaiyavouH935 →2568 times

  • לִפְנֵ֥י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃the king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 1:26

    But me your servant he did not invite, nor Zadok the priest, nor Benaiah son of Jehoiada, nor your servant Solomon.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 1:8

      But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s mighty men would not join Adonijah.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Kings 1:10

      But he did not invite Nathan the prophet, Benaiah, the mighty men, or his brother Solomon.

  • Through

    1 Kings 1:8

    But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s mighty men would not join Adonijah.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 4:18

      Shimei son of Ela in Benjamin;

    • 2 Samuel 23:8–39

      These are the names of David’s mighty men: Josheb-basshebeth the Tahchemonite was chief of the Three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred men, whom he killed at one time.

    • 2 Samuel 20:25

      Sheva was the scribe; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

  • Through

    1 Kings 1:38

    Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, went down and set Solomon on King David’s mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 8:18

      Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priestly leaders.

    • 2 Samuel 20:20–23

      “Far be it!” Joab declared. “Far be it from me to swallow up or destroy!

    • 1 Kings 1:33

      “Take my servants with you,” said the king. “Set my son Solomon on my own mule and take him down to Gihon.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); F. W. Farrar, The First Book of Kings (Expositor's Bible); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil, The Books of the Kings.