{"id":8878,"date":"2024-02-15T13:40:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T19:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/?p=8878"},"modified":"2025-07-29T08:43:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:43:51","slug":"%e7%a5%ad%e5%8f%b8%e6%92%92%e7%9d%a3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/bible-faith\/devotional-notes\/2024\/02\/%e7%a5%ad%e5%8f%b8%e6%92%92%e7%9d%a3\/","title":{"rendered":"Zadok the Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aaron’s sons were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. Nadab and Abihu died before Aaron and had no sons; therefore, Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests. Zadok was a descendant of Eleazar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Samuel was young, Eli, a descendant of Ithamar, served as high priest (1 Samuel 1:9). In David’s time, “Zadok, a descendant of Eleazar,” and “Ahimelech, a descendant of Ithamar,” served as chief priests together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During his reign, David had long decided that his son Solomon would succeed him as king and build the Temple (1 Chronicles 22:5-11), and he commanded the leaders of Israel to help Solomon (1 Chronicles 22:16). When David grew old, another of David’s sons, Adonijah, presumptuously declared, “I will be king!” and prepared chariots and horsemen for himself (1 Kings 1:5). But Zadok and others did not follow Adonijah (1 Kings 1:8). Zadok, following David’s command, anointed Solomon as king (1 Kings 1:32-40). Because the original priest Abiathar (son of Ahimelech) had followed Adonijah in his attempt to usurp the throne (1 Kings 1:7), after Solomon became king, he removed Abiathar from his priestly duties (1 Kings 2:26-27), leaving Zadok as the sole priest (1 Kings 2:35).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the time of King Solomon, Zadok replaced Abiathar as high priest (1 Kings 2:35; 1 Chronicles 29:22). Thereafter, the high priesthood was continuously held by the descendants of Zadok, fulfilling God’s prophecy of rejecting the house of Eli (1 Samuel 2:35-36) (the prophet Ezekiel was a descendant of Zadok).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

List of Israelite High Priests<\/strong>\uff08From the Exodus to the Babylonian Captivity\uff09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Aaron, during the Exodus period<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Eleazar, son of Aaron<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Phinehas, son of Eleazar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Abishua, son of Phinehas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Bukki, son of Abishua<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Uzzi, son of Bukki<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Eli, descendant of Ithamar, son of Aaron<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Ahitub, son of Phinehas, grandson of Eli<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Ahijah, son of Ahitub<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Ahimelech, son of Ahijah, high priest during King Saul’s reign<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Abiathar, son of Ahimelech, high priest during King David’s reign<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Zadok, son of Ahitub, high priest at the time of the First Temple’s construction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Ahimaaz, son of Zadok, during King Solomon’s reign<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Azariah, son of Ahimaaz, during King Solomon’s reign<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aaron’s sons were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. Nadab and Abihu died before Aaron and had no sons; therefore, Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests. Zadok was a descendant of Eleazar. When Samuel was young, Eli, a descendant of Ithamar, served as high priest (1 Samuel 1:9). In David’s time, “Zadok, a descendant of Eleazar,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devotional-notes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8878"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11004,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions\/11004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}