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1 Kings 2:35 Explained in Context
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Verse 35. 35And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
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Quick Meaning
This verse states the thought unit's compressed movement: “And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Benaiah and Zadok receive office.”
Read It With
- 1 Kings 2:34–35
Read 1 Kings 2:35 with 2:34–35. The selected wording supplies one statement in the thought unit's compressed movement; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Transfers Joab's military office to Benaiah and Abiathar's priestly office to Zadok.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Benaiah and Zadok receive office,” 1 Kings 2:35 states the thought unit's compressed movement through the wording “And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: The appointments of Benaiah and Zadok complete the removals of Joab and Abiathar by naming who now holds their military and priestly offices.
Read 1 Kings 2:35–35 together
Why these verses belong together: Benaiah and Zadok receive office is the complete reviewed scene, prayer, oracle, list, or regnal notice bounded at 2:35–2:35.
Verse 35. 35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
What Remains True
Public power and worship remain accountable to truth, covenant faithfulness, affected people, and consequences rather than title, success, wealth, or majority support. This unit tests that truth through transfers Joab's military office to Benaiah and Abiathar's priestly office to Zadok. In 1 Kings 2:35, the concrete line “And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the…” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
How It Can Shape Life
- The evidence to keep visible in this verse is “And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the….” Use authority to increase truthful access, protect people with less power, preserve dissent, and repair concrete harm instead of defending reputation, control, or religious prestige. This response follows from the unit's own sequence: Transfers Joab's military office to Benaiah and Abiathar's priestly office to Zadok.
Continue in Context
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: 1 Kings 2:35, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording and morphology used for lexical, grammatical, name, clause, and older-English checks; this is not a critical apparatus or historical proof.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 2:35
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: 1 Kings with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Only printed unit-level translation, lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, and verse-numbering notes; silence is not evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible 1 Kings PDF, printed pp. 586–589, translation and translator notes for 2:35
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