2 Samuel 20:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Sheva was the scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 8:17 : 17 Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was scribe;
  • 1 Kgs 4:4 : 4 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was commander of the army.Zadok and Abiathar were priests.
  • 1 Chr 18:16 : 16 Zadok son of Ahitub and Abimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Shavsha was scribe;

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 1 Chr 18:15-17
    3 verses
    87%

    15Joab son of Zeruiah was commanding general of the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was secretary;

    16Zadok son of Ahitub and Abimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Shavsha was scribe;

    17Benaiah son of Jehoiada supervised the Kerethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were the king’s leading officials.

  • 2 Sam 8:16-18
    3 verses
    85%

    16David’s Cabinet Joab son of Zeruiah was general in command of the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was secretary;

    17Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was scribe;

    18Benaiah son of Jehoiada supervised the Kerithites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priests.

  • 1 Kgs 4:2-4
    3 verses
    78%

    2These were his officials:Azariah son of Zadok was the priest.

    3Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, wrote down what happened. Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was in charge of the records.

    4Benaiah son of Jehoiada was commander of the army.Zadok and Abiathar were priests.

  • 2 Sam 20:23-24
    2 verses
    77%

    23Now Joab was the general in command of all the army of Israel. Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and the Perethites.

    24Adoniram was supervisor of the work crews. Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the secretary.

  • 1 Chr 15:11
    75%

    11David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar, along with the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab.

  • 2 Sam 15:35-36
    2 verses
    75%

    35Zadok and Abiathar the priests will be there with you. Everything you hear in the king’s palace you must tell Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

    36Furthermore, their two sons are there with them, Zadok’s son Ahimaaz and Abiathar’s son Jonathan. You must send them to me with any information you hear.”

  • 2 Sam 20:26
    74%

    26Ira the Jairite was David’s personal priest.

  • 1 Kgs 2:35
    73%

    35The king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada to take his place at the head of the army, and the king appointed Zadok the priest to take Abiathar’s place.

  • 1 Chr 24:6
    73%

    6The scribe Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, wrote down their names before the king, the officials, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and the leaders of the priestly and Levite families. One family was drawn by lot from Eleazar, and then the next from Ithamar.

  • 1 Chr 24:3
    73%

    3David, Zadok(a descendant of Eleazar), and Ahimelech(a descendant of Ithamar) divided them into groups to carry out their assigned responsibilities.

  • 1 Sam 22:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20But one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped and fled to David. His name was Abiathar.

    21Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 1:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7He collaborated with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they supported him.

    8But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s elite warriors did not ally themselves with Adonijah.

  • 2 Sam 15:27
    71%

    27The king said to Zadok the priest,“Are you a seer? Go back to the city in peace! Your son Ahimaaz and Abiathar’s son Jonathan may go with you and Abiathar.

  • 1 Chr 27:34
    70%

    34Ahithophel was succeeded by Jehoiada son of Benaiah and by Abiathar.Joab was the commanding general of the king’s army.

  • 1 Chr 16:39
    70%

    39Zadok the priest and his fellow priests served before the LORD’s tabernacle at the worship center in Gibeon,

  • 1 Kgs 1:32
    70%

    32King David said,“Summon Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” They came before the king,

  • 2 Sam 20:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6Then David said to Abishai,“Now Sheba son of Bicri will cause greater disaster for us than Absalom did! Take your lord’s servants and pursue him. Otherwise he will secure fortified cities for himself and get away from us.”

    7So Joab’s men, accompanied by the Kerethites, the Pelethites, and all the warriors, left Jerusalem to pursue Sheba son of Bicri.

  • 1 Sam 22:11
    69%

    11Then the king arranged for a meeting with the priest Ahimelech son of Ahitub and all the priests of his father’s house who were at Nob. They all came to the king.

  • 2 Sam 15:29
    69%

    29So Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem and remained there.

  • 1 Chr 27:25
    69%

    25Royal Officials Azmaveth son of Adiel was in charge of the king’s storehouses;Jonathan son of Uzziah was in charge of the storehouses in the field, in the cities, in the towns, and in the towers.

  • 1 Sam 22:17
    69%

    17Then the king said to the messengers who were stationed beside him,“Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, for they too have sided with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm the priests of the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 12:28
    69%

    28along with Zadok, a young warrior, and twenty-two leaders from his family.

  • 1 Kgs 1:26
    69%

    26But he did not invite me– your servant– or Zadok the priest, or Benaiah son of Jehoiada, or your servant Solomon.

  • 1 Chr 23:2
    68%

    2David assembled all the leaders of Israel, along with the priests and the Levites.

  • 1 Kgs 4:6
    68%

    6Ahishar was supervisor of the palace. Adoniram son of Abda was supervisor of the work crews.

  • 1 Kgs 2:26-27
    2 verses
    68%

    26The king then told Abiathar the priest,“Go back to your property in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the Sovereign LORD before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.”

    27Solomon removed Abiathar from being a priest for the LORD, fulfilling the LORD’s message that he had pronounced against the family of Eli in Shiloh.

  • Neh 10:8
    68%

    8Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests.

  • 1 Chr 27:17
    68%

    17Hashabiah son of Kemuel led the Levites,Zadok led the descendants of Aaron,

  • 1 Sam 30:7
    68%

    7Then David said to the priest Abiathar son of Ahimelech,“Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

  • 2 Sam 5:16
    68%

    16Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.

  • 1 Chr 25:1
    68%

    1David Organizes the Musicians David and the army officers selected some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to prophesy as they played stringed instruments and cymbals. The following men were assigned this responsibility:

  • Neh 11:11
    68%

    11Seraiah son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, supervisor in the temple of God,

  • 1 Chr 26:26
    67%

    26Shelomith and his relatives were in charge of all the storehouses containing the consecrated items dedicated by King David, the family leaders who led units of a thousand and a hundred, and the army officers.

  • 1 Chr 27:32
    67%

    32Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a wise adviser and scribe; Jehiel son of Hacmoni cared for the king’s sons.

  • 2 Sam 20:2
    67%

    2So all the men of Israel deserted David and followed Sheba son of Bicri. But the men of Judah stuck by their king all the way from the Jordan River to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 21:1
    67%

    1David Goes to Nob(21:1) Then David got up and left, while Jonathan went back to the city.(21:2) David went to Ahimelech the priest in Nob. Ahimelech was shaking with fear when he met David, and said to him,“Why are you by yourself with no one accompanying you?”

  • 1 Chr 8:20
    67%

    20Elienai, Zillethai, Eliel,

  • Ezra 10:39
    67%

    39Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah,