Zadok in Smiths Bible Dictionary
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1. Son of Ahitub and one of the two chief priests in
the time of David, Abiathar being the other. Zadok was of
the house of Eleazar the son of Aaron, 1Ch 24:3 and eleventh
in descent from Aaron. 1Ch 12:28 He joined David at Hebron
after Saul's death, 1Ch 12:28 and thenceforth his fidelity
to David was inviolable. When Absalom revolted and David
fled from Jerusalem, Zadok and all the Levites bearing the
ark accompanied him. When Absalom was dead, Zadok and
Abiathar were the persons who persuaded the elders of Judah
to invite David to return. 2Sa 19:11 When Adonijah, in
David's old age, set up for king, and had persuaded Joab,
and Abiathar the priest, to join his party, Zadok was
unmoved, and was employed by David to anoint Solomon to be
king in his room. 1Ki 1:34 For this fidelity he was rewarded
by Solomon who "thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto
the Lord," and "put in Zadok the priest" in his room. 1Ki
2:27,35 From this time, however, we hear little of him.
Zadok and Abiathar were of nearly equal dignity. 2Sa
15:35,36; 19:11 The duties of the office were divided, Zadok
ministered before the tabernacle at Gibeon, 1Ch 16:39
Abiathar had the care of the ark at Jerusalem.
2. According to the genealogy of the high priests in
1Ch 6:12 there was a second Zadok, son of a second Ahitub
son of Amariah, about the time of King Ahaziah. It is
probable that no such person as this second Zadok ever
existed, but that the insertion of the two names is a
copyist's error.
3. Father of Jerushah, the wife of King Uzziah and
mother of King Jotham. 2Ki 15:33; 2Ch 27:1
4. Son of Baana, and 5. Son of Immer, persons who
repaired a portion of the wall in Nehemiah's time. Ne 3:4,29
6. In 1Ch 9:11 and Nehe 11:11
mention is made, in a genealogy, of Zadok, the son
of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub; but it can hardly be
doubtful that Meraioth is inserted by the error of a
copyist, and that Zadok the son of Ahitub is meant.
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