{"id":61648,"date":"2019-08-21T00:39:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T21:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=61648"},"modified":"2023-03-17T15:40:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T13:40:04","slug":"parsing-the-royal-entourage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/parsing-the-royal-entourage\/","title":{"rendered":"Parsing The Royal Entourage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[631,838],"acf":{"old_id":"61648","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"291","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Then, as now, taxes are a central feature of government policy\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This chapter begins with an understatement: \u201cKing Solomon was now king over all Israel\u201d (1), and concludes with hyperbole: \u201cJudah and Israel were as numerous as sands of the sea; they ate and drank and were content\u201d (20). In between, it proceeds to enumerate the members of Solomon\u2019s retinue, presenting some surprises and several questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First of all, verse 3 names two people who served as scribes (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sof\u2019rim<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and one who was a recorder (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mazkir<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). What, exactly, were their functions? Rashi identified the former as the court chroniclers and the latter as a registrar who insured that the king dealt with the cases that came before him in their proper sequential order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Verse 2 names Azariah son of Zadok as \u201cthe priest\u201d while verse 4 names Zadok and Abiathar as priests (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kohanim<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). This raises two questions: (1) we know that Zadok had a son named Ahimaatz (who carried messages for the Davidic underground in 2 Samuel 17), but who is Azariah? And (2) how could Abiathar serve as a <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kohen<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when we were told earlier that Solomon dismissed him (2:27)? Radak identified Azariah as the son of Ahimaatz and, therefore, Zadok\u2019s grandson, since it is not unusual for biblical genealogies to conflate the two. He also opined that this Zadok cannot be the one who was dismissed by Solomon, but \u201canother priest with the same name.\u201d In fact, a look at the register of high priests in 1 Chronicles 5 indicates that from the inception of the First Temple until its destruction (spanning some ten generations), Zadok (or, Jehozadak), Ahitub, and Azariah account for half of their names.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Verse 5 names \u201cthe king\u2019s companion,\u201d a title we encountered previously as belonging to Hushai, who served David in that capacity (2 Samuel 15:37). Radak defined the position as \u201che was with him constantly,\u201d and, perhaps, in contemporary terms he would be designated \u201cthe first friend.\u201d And finally, verse 6 identifies Adoniram who was \u201cin charge of the <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mas<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d which refers to the levy\/cortege that Solomon imposed on all Israel (5:27-28), and which was to be a prime cause in the splitting of the kingdom after his death (chapter 12).<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":61649,"id":61649,"title":"1kings4-taxes","filename":"1kings4-taxes.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings4-taxes.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/parsing-the-royal-entourage\/1kings4-taxes\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"1kings4-taxes","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":61648,"date":"2019-08-20 21:39:02","modified":"2019-08-20 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