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fruits</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Burnt_offering_(Judaism)" title="Burnt offering (Judaism)">Burnt offering</a></li><li>Parts of the <a href="/wiki/Thank_offering" title="Thank offering">thank offering</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nazirite" title="Nazirite">Nazirite</a>'s offering</li></ul></div><br /> <b>Ten gifts given (even) outside of Jerusalem</b><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Terumah_(offering)" title="Terumah (offering)">Heave offering</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Terumat_hamaaser" title="Terumat hamaaser">Heave offering of the Levite's tithe</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Dough_offering" title="Dough offering">Dough offering</a></li><li>First shearing of the sheep</li><li><a href="/wiki/Foreleg,_cheeks_and_maw" title="Foreleg, cheeks and maw">Foreleg, cheeks and maw</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Pidyon_haben" title="Pidyon haben">Coins for redemption of the firstborn son</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Petter_Chamor" class="mw-redirect" title="Petter Chamor">Redemption of a 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title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'z' in 'zoom'">z</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/ɒ/: 'o' in 'body'">ɒ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span></span>/</a></span></span>), also spelled <b>Ṣadok</b>, <b>Ṣadoc</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <b>Zadoq</b>, <b>Tzadok</b> or <b>Tsadoq</b> (<a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>: <span lang="he" dir="rtl">צָדוֹק הַכֹּהֵן</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Hebrew" title="Romanization of Hebrew">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Hebrew-language romanization"><i lang="he-Latn">Ṣādōq ha-Kōhēn</i></span>; lit. 'righteous, justified'), was a <a href="/wiki/Kohen" title="Kohen">Kohen</a> (priest), biblically recorded to be a descendant of <a href="/wiki/Eleazar" title="Eleazar">Eleazar</a> the son of <a href="/wiki/Aaron" title="Aaron">Aaron</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was the <a href="/wiki/High_Priest_of_Israel" title="High Priest of Israel">High Priest of Israel</a> during the reigns of <a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a> and <a href="/wiki/Solomon" title="Solomon">Solomon</a> as kings of Israel.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He aided King David during the revolt of his son <a href="/wiki/Absalom" title="Absalom">Absalom</a>, was subsequently instrumental in bringing Solomon to the throne, and officiated at Solomon's coronation. After Solomon's building of the <a href="/wiki/Solomon%27s_Temple" title="Solomon's Temple">First Temple</a> in Jerusalem, Zadok was the first High Priest to serve there.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The prophet <a href="/wiki/Ezekiel" title="Ezekiel">Ezekiel</a> extols the <a href="/wiki/Sons_of_Zadok" title="Sons of Zadok">sons of Zadok</a> as staunch opponents of <a href="/wiki/Avodah_Zarah" title="Avodah Zarah">paganism</a> during the era of pagan worship, and indicates their birthright to unique duties and privileges in the future temple.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hebrew_Bible">Hebrew Bible</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadok&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Hebrew Bible"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Tanakh" class="mw-redirect" title="Tanakh">Tanakh</a> (Hebrew Bible) states that Zadok was a patrilineal descendant of <a href="/wiki/Eleazar" title="Eleazar">Eleazar</a> the son of <a href="/wiki/Aaron" title="Aaron">Aaron</a> the <a href="/wiki/Kohen_Gadol" class="mw-redirect" title="Kohen Gadol">high priest</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The lineage of Zadok is presented in the genealogy of <a href="/wiki/Ezra" title="Ezra">Ezra</a> (his descendant) as being of ninth generation of direct patrilineal descent from <a href="/wiki/Phinehas" title="Phinehas">Phinehas</a> the son of Eleazar.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A certain Zadok had been one of those who joined David at <a href="/wiki/Hebron" title="Hebron">Hebron</a> and helped him win the crown of all <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>, his house then including twenty-two captains.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Josephus" title="Josephus">Josephus</a> identifies this Zadok with the high priest of the same name.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Absalom#The_revolt_at_Hebron" title="Absalom">rebellion of Absalom</a>, Zadok the priest is mentioned, as he and the <a href="/wiki/Levite" title="Levite">Levites</a> wished to accompany the fleeing David and bring along the <a href="/wiki/Ark_of_the_Covenant" title="Ark of the Covenant">Ark of the Covenant</a>, but the king instructed Zadok to remain at <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>, where he and Abiathar could do him better service,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> so that it actually happened that <a href="/wiki/Ahimaaz" title="Ahimaaz">Ahimaaz</a>, the son of Zadok, along with <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_(son_of_Abiathar)" title="Jonathan (son of Abiathar)">Jonathan</a>, the son of <a href="/wiki/Abiathar" title="Abiathar">Abiathar</a>, brought the fleeing king a life saving message.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In all these passages Zadok is mentioned in precedence to Abiathar.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Zadok was also chief officer over the Aaronites.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The term high priest is not used in the Hebrew scriptures from the time of Joshua until the reign of Joash.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Both Zadok and Abiathar functioned in tandem as priests at the time of David's hasty exit from Jerusalem. When David first set up his cabinet, Zadok and <a href="/wiki/Abiathar" title="Abiathar">Abiathar</a>, the son of <a href="/wiki/Ahimelech" title="Ahimelech">Ahimelech</a>, were named as priests.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the suppression of the <a href="/wiki/Absalom" title="Absalom">Absalom</a> rebellion, King David sent Zadok and Abiathar to the elders of Judah, urging them to hasten to bring the monarch back.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subsequently, when <a href="/wiki/Adonijah" title="Adonijah">Adonijah</a> endeavored to secure the throne, Abiathar sided with him, leading king Solomon (David's son) to expel him from Jerusalem and reinforce the sole chief-priesthood of Zadok, who, along with <a href="/wiki/Nathan_the_Prophet" class="mw-redirect" title="Nathan the Prophet">Nathan the Prophet</a>, supported King Solomon's accession to throne.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In gratitude, Solomon appointed him sole high priest.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Zadok also officiated at the <a href="/wiki/Anointing" title="Anointing">anointing</a> ceremony of Solomon as king.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt25a16.htm#39">1 Chronicles 16:39</a> Zadok is named as the leader of the priests who served "before the <a href="/wiki/Tabernacle" title="Tabernacle">tabernacle of the Lord</a> at the <a href="/wiki/High_place" title="High place">high place</a> that was at <a href="/wiki/Gibeon_(ancient_city)" title="Gibeon (ancient city)">Gibeon</a>", although he is later recorded as working alongside Ahimelech devising a schedule of priestly service to support David's preparations for the construction of the Temple in Jerusalem.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Zadok's sons were <a href="/wiki/Ahimaaz" title="Ahimaaz">Ahimaaz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Azariah" title="Azariah">Azariah</a>. His descendants who held the high priesthood up to the destruction of <a href="/wiki/Solomon%27s_Temple" title="Solomon's Temple">the First Temple</a> and, following the building of the <a href="/wiki/Second_temple" class="mw-redirect" title="Second temple">second temple</a>, resumed the high priesthood, as per <a href="/wiki/Joshua_the_High_Priest" title="Joshua the High Priest">Joshua the High Priest</a> (along with <a href="/wiki/Ezra" title="Ezra">Ezra</a>) being of <a href="/wiki/Zadokite" class="mw-redirect" title="Zadokite">Zadokite</a> lineage. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Zadokite_dynasty">The Zadokite dynasty</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadok&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The Zadokite dynasty"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sons_of_Zadok" title="Sons of Zadok">Sons of Zadok</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_rabbinic_literature">In rabbinic literature</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadok&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: In rabbinic literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the Bible, <a href="/wiki/Aaron" title="Aaron">Aaron</a> received a perpetual <a href="/wiki/Priestly_covenant" title="Priestly covenant">priestly covenant</a> by which his descendants, and only his descendants, would be priests.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to some commentaries, the priesthood was further restricted to descendants of Aaron's son <a href="/wiki/Eleazar" title="Eleazar">Eleazar</a> after Eleazar inherited Aaron's priestly robes (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0420.htm#24">Numbers 20:24–28</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and further restricted to descendants of Eleazar's son <a href="/wiki/Pinchas" class="mw-redirect" title="Pinchas">Pinchas</a> after Pinchas performed his act of zealotry.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Nevertheless, later on the high priesthood was held by <a href="/wiki/Eli_(biblical_figure)" title="Eli (biblical figure)">Eli</a>, a descendant of Itamar (Eleazar's brother). Torah commentators attribute this to Pinchas' later sins.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But upon the sin of Eli's sons, <a href="/wiki/Hophni_and_Phinehas" title="Hophni and Phinehas">Hophni and Phinehas</a>, a "man of God" prophesied the extinction of their priesthood: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>And I will erect myself a reliable priest (who acts) with my heart, and with my soul he will do, and I will build him a reliable household, and he will go before my Anointed all of days.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>This prophecy was fulfilled when Zadok, who was descended from Eleazar and Pinchas, was appointed as high priest.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History_of_Zadokites">History of Zadokites</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadok&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: History of Zadokites"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Historical data show that the high-priesthood remained in the progeny of the Zadokites from the time of Zadok up until the rise of the <a href="/wiki/Hasmoneans" class="mw-redirect" title="Hasmoneans">Hasmoneans</a>, in about 167 BCE.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The descendants of Zadok increased in rank and influence, so that his son Azariah was one of the princes of Solomon (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1%20Kings%204:2&version=nrsv">1 Kings 4:2</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Ahimaaz" title="Ahimaaz">Ahimaaz</a>, who married a daughter of Solomon, was probably another of Zadok's sons (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1%20Kings%204:15&version=nrsv">1 Kings 4:15</a>). Either Zadok himself or his grandson was the ruler of the Aaronite priests (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1%20Chronicles%2027:17&version=nrsv">1 Chronicles 27:17</a>), and <a href="/wiki/Jerusha" class="mw-redirect" title="Jerusha">Jerusha</a>, the mother of <a href="/wiki/Jotham" title="Jotham">Jotham</a>, is apparently termed the daughter of Zadok to emphasize her noble lineage, since her father may have been a descendant of the first Zadok (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=2%20Kings%2015:33&version=nrsv">2 Kings 15:33</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=2%20Chronicles%2027:1&version=nrsv">2 Chronicles 27:1</a>). </p><p>The house of Zadok occupied the high priesthood through much of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple_period" title="Second Temple period">Second Temple period</a>, from Jehoshua ben Jehozadak after the Exile, down to <a href="/wiki/Simon_II_(High_Priest)" title="Simon II (High Priest)">Simon II</a> (Simon the Just, much praised in <a href="/wiki/Ben_Sira" title="Ben Sira">Ben Sira</a> 50), his eldest son <a href="/wiki/Onias_III" title="Onias III">Onias III</a>, and his usurping second son Jason, who introduced the programme of <a href="/wiki/Hellenisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellenisation">Hellenisation</a> that eventually led to the <a href="/wiki/Maccabean_Revolt" title="Maccabean Revolt">Maccabean Revolt</a>. </p><p>Josephus records that <a href="/wiki/Onias_IV" title="Onias IV">Onias IV</a> went to <a href="/wiki/Leontopolis_(Heliopolis)" title="Leontopolis (Heliopolis)">Leontopolis</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_nome" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian nome">Egyptian nome</a> of <a href="/wiki/Heliopolis_(Ancient_Egypt)" class="mw-redirect" title="Heliopolis (Ancient Egypt)">Heliopolis</a> with a significant following, and for lending military support to the <a href="/wiki/Ptolemaic_dynasty" title="Ptolemaic dynasty">Ptolemaic</a> <a href="/wiki/Pharaoh" title="Pharaoh">Pharaoh</a> was given land to build a temple to rival the <a href="/wiki/Temple_in_Jerusalem" title="Temple in Jerusalem">Temple in Jerusalem</a> (although <a href="/wiki/Josephus" title="Josephus">Josephus</a> also ascribes this to Onias III, while dating the project so as to suggest Onias II). It has been suggested that Onias or members of his Zadokite house may have also founded the community at <a href="/wiki/Qumran" title="Qumran">Qumran</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_theories_about_Zadok">Other theories about Zadok</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadok&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Other theories about Zadok"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cornelis_de_Vos_-_The_Anointing_of_Solomon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Cornelis_de_Vos_-_The_Anointing_of_Solomon.jpg/250px-Cornelis_de_Vos_-_The_Anointing_of_Solomon.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Cornelis_de_Vos_-_The_Anointing_of_Solomon.jpg/375px-Cornelis_de_Vos_-_The_Anointing_of_Solomon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Cornelis_de_Vos_-_The_Anointing_of_Solomon.jpg/500px-Cornelis_de_Vos_-_The_Anointing_of_Solomon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1443" data-file-height="1211" /></a><figcaption><i>The Anointing of Solomon</i> by <a href="/wiki/Cornelis_de_Vos" title="Cornelis de Vos">Cornelis de Vos</a>. According to <a href="/wiki/Books_of_Kings" title="Books of Kings">1 Kings</a> 1:39, Zadok <a href="/wiki/Anointing" title="Anointing">anointed</a> <a href="/wiki/Solomon" title="Solomon">Solomon</a> as king.</figcaption></figure><p>Some have speculated that as Zadok does not appear in the text of Samuel until after the conquest of <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>, he was actually a <a href="/wiki/Jebusite" class="mw-redirect" title="Jebusite">Jebusite</a> priest co-opted into the <a href="/wiki/Israelite" class="mw-redirect" title="Israelite">Israelite</a> <a href="/wiki/State_religion" title="State religion">state religion</a>. Harvard Divinity School Professor <a href="/wiki/Frank_Moore_Cross" title="Frank Moore Cross">Frank Moore Cross</a> refers to this theory as the "Jebusite Hypothesis", criticising it extensively, although he terms it the dominant view among contemporary scholars.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elsewhere in the Bible, the <a href="/wiki/Jebusites" title="Jebusites">Jebusites</a> are described in a manner that suggests that they worshipped the same God (<a href="/wiki/El_Elyon" class="mw-redirect" title="El Elyon">El Elyon</a>) as the Israelites, in the case of <a href="/wiki/Melchizedek" title="Melchizedek">Melchizedek</a>. Further support for this theory comes from the fact that other Jebusites or residents of pre-<a href="/wiki/Israelite" class="mw-redirect" title="Israelite">Israelite</a> Jerusalem bore names invoking the principle or god <a href="/wiki/Zedek" class="mw-redirect" title="Zedek">Zedek</a> (<i>Tzedek</i>) (see, for example, the names Melchizedek and <a href="/wiki/Adonizedek" title="Adonizedek">Adonizedek</a>). Under this theory the Aaronic lineage ascribed to <a href="/wiki/Zadok_(High_Priest)" class="mw-redirect" title="Zadok (High Priest)">Zadok</a> is a later, anachronistic interpolation.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_Zadoks">Other Zadoks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadok&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Other Zadoks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sadducees" title="Sadducees">Sadducees</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Geiger" title="Abraham Geiger">Abraham Geiger</a>, was of the opinion that the <a href="/wiki/Sadducee" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadducee">Sadducee</a> ("Tzadoki" in <a href="/wiki/Mishna" class="mw-redirect" title="Mishna">Mishnaic</a> pronunciation) sect of Judaism drew their name from Zadok, with the leaders of the sect proposed as the sons of Zadok.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, <a href="/wiki/Rabbinic_Judaism" title="Rabbinic Judaism">Rabbinic</a> sources describe the Sadducee and <a href="/wiki/Boethusian" class="mw-redirect" title="Boethusian">Boethusian</a> groups have originated at the same time, with their founders, <i>Zadok</i> and <i>Boethus</i>, both being students of <a href="/wiki/Antigonus_of_Sokho" title="Antigonus of Sokho">Antigonus of Sokho</a> (roughly 3rd century BCE).<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Rabbi_Zadok" title="Rabbi Zadok">Rabbi Zadok</a>, one of the <a href="/wiki/Tannaim" title="Tannaim">tannaim</a>, is mentioned as saved in <a href="/wiki/Talmud" title="Talmud">Talmud</a> in connection with the destruction of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple" title="Second Temple">Second Temple</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Patrilineal_ancestry">Patrilineal ancestry</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadok&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Patrilineal ancestry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As per 1 Chronicles chapter 5: </p> <table class="collapsible expanded" style="margin: 0.3em auto auto; clear:none; min-width:60em; width:auto; font-size:85%; border:1px solid #aaa"> <tbody><tr> <th style="padding:0.2em 0.3em 0.2em 4.3em;background:none; color: inherit; width:auto">Patrilineal descent </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left"> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham" title="Abraham">Abraham</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Isaac" title="Isaac">Isaac</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Jacob" title="Jacob">Jacob</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Levi" title="Levi">Levi</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kehath" title="Kehath">Kehath</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Amram" title="Amram">Amram</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Aaron" title="Aaron">Aaron</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Eleazar" title="Eleazar">Eleazar</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Phinehas" title="Phinehas">Phinehas</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Abishua" title="Abishua">Abishua</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Bukki" title="Bukki">Bukki</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Uzzi" title="Uzzi">Uzzi</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Zerahiah" class="mw-redirect" title="Zerahiah">Zerahiah</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Meraioth" class="mw-redirect" title="Meraioth">Meraioth</a></li><li> <a href="/wiki/Azariah_(Son_of_Meraioth)" class="mw-redirect" title="Azariah (Son of Meraioth)">Azariah</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Amariah" title="Amariah">Amariah</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ahitub_(father_of_Zadok)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ahitub (father of Zadok) (page does not exist)">Ahitub</a></li><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Zadok</a></li></ol> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadok&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Zadok_the_Priest" title="Zadok the Priest">Zadok the Priest</a></i> (coronation anthem by <a href="/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel" title="George Frideric Handel">George Frideric Handel</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_High_Priests_of_Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="List of High Priests of Israel">List of High Priests of Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zadig" title="Zadig">Zadig</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zadok&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.drbo.org/chapter/11001.htm">"Douay-Rheims Bible, 3 Kings (1 Kings) Chapter 1"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Douay-Rheims+Bible%2C+3+Kings+%281+Kings%29+Chapter+1&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.drbo.org%2Fchapter%2F11001.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadok" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt25a06.htm#4">1 Chronicles 6:4–8</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt08b08.htm#16">2 Samuel 8:16–18</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt09a02.htm#35">1 Kings 2:35</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt1244.htm#15">Ezekiel 44:15, 43:19</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt25a24.htm#3">1 Chronicles 24:3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt35a07.htm#1">Ezra 7:1–4</a>; see also <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt25a06.htm#4">1 Chronicles 6:4–8</a> where he is placed eighth in descent from Phinehas.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt25a12.htm#29">1 Chronicles 12:29</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Antiquities of the Jews 7:2, § 2</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">2 Samuel 15:24–29; comp. v. 35</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">ib. 17:21</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt08b15.htm#35">2 Samuel 15:35</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt08b17.htm#15">2 Samuel 17:15</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt08b19.htm#11">2 Samuel 19:11</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt08b20.htm#25">2 Samuel 20:25</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt09a04.htm#4">1 Kings 4:4</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt25a15.htm#11">1 Chronicles 15:11</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt25a27.htm#16">1 Chronicles 27:16–17</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt25a15.htm#11">1 Chronicles 15:11</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0620.htm#6">Joshua 20:6</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt09b12.htm#10">2 Kings 12:10</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See 1 Samuel 22:20; 23:6; 30:7, where Abiathar is consistently the son of Ahimelech. And so it is in 2 Samuel 8:17 with Syriac and Ethiopic. The MT and all other versions however have the corrupted text "Ahimelech son of Abiathar" (and so in 1 Chronicles 18:16; 24:6. In the former though it is "Abimelech" in the place of "Ahimelech"). See 2 Samuel AB, P. Kyle McCarter, 1984, p. 253</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt08b19.htm#12">2 Samuel 19:12</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Books_of_Kings" title="Books of Kings">1 Kings</a> 2:27, 35; 1 Chr. 29:22</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt09a02.htm#35">1 Kings 2:35</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt09a01.htm#39">1 Kings 1:39</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt25a24.htm#3">1 Chronicles 24:3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0229.htm#9">Exodus 29:9</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0418.htm#19">Numbers 18:19</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt25a23.htm#13">1 Chronicles 23:13</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAshley1993" class="citation book cs1">Ashley, Timothy R. (1993). <i>The New International Commentary on the Old Testament: The Book of Numbers</i>. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. p. 396. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780802825230" title="Special:BookSources/9780802825230"><bdi>9780802825230</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+New+International+Commentary+on+the+Old+Testament%3A+The+Book+of+Numbers&rft.place=Grand+Rapids%2C+MI&rft.pages=396&rft.pub=Wm.+B.+Eerdmans+Publishing+Co.&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=9780802825230&rft.aulast=Ashley&rft.aufirst=Timothy+R.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadok" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Yosef_Karo" class="mw-redirect" title="Yosef Karo">Yosef Karo</a>, <i>Maggid Meisharim</i>, p. 55b; <a href="/wiki/Rashi" title="Rashi">Rashi</a> to <a href="/wiki/Zevachim" title="Zevachim">Zevachim</a> 101b interpreting the "covenant of eternal priesthood" (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0425.htm#13">Numbers 25:13</a>)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Yalkut_Shimoni" title="Yalkut Shimoni">Yalkut Shimoni</a>, 19,19; <a href="/wiki/Genesis_Rabbah" title="Genesis Rabbah">Genesis Rabbah</a> 60:3</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt08a02.htm#35">1 Samuel 2:35</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See "Torath HaKohanim", <a href="/wiki/Mnachem_Risikoff" title="Mnachem Risikoff">Mnachem Risikoff</a>, Minor Chap. 200</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Alter" title="Robert Alter">Robert Alter</a>, <i>The David Story</i> (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000), 15.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0021_0_21361.html">"Zadok"</a>. <i>www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org&rft.atitle=Zadok&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishvirtuallibrary.org%2Fjsource%2Fjudaica%2Fejud_0002_0021_0_21361.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZadok" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See Frank Moore Cross, <i>Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel</i>. Scholars supporting the Jebusite Hypothesis include <a href="/wiki/H._H._Rowley" title="H. H. Rowley">H. H. Rowley</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/pss/3259856">"Zadok and Nehushtan"</a>, Journal of Biblical Literature 58:113–141 (1939); <a href="/wiki/H._H._Rowley" title="H. H. Rowley">H. H. Rowley</a>, "Melchizedek and Zadok", <i>Festschrift <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Bertholet" title="Alfred Bertholet">Alfred Bertholet</a></i>, pp. 461–472 (1950); Rainer Albertz, <i>A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period</i> 1:295 (1994); and G. H. Jones, <i>The Nathan Narratives</i> 20–25, 40–42, 131–135.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/H._H._Rowley" title="H. H. Rowley">H. H. Rowley</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/pss/3259856">"Zadok and Nehushtan"</a>, Journal of Biblical Literature 58:113–141 (1939), states that the Bible provides two different genealogies for Zadok (2 Sam 8:17 and 1 Chron 24:3; see also 1 Chron 5:30–34, 6:35-38), "but of these one is almost certainly due to textual corruption, and the other to the pious fabrication of a later age". Rowley follows this statement with an analysis too long to summarize here.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Geiger, <i>Urschrift und Uebersetzungen der Bibel</i>, pp. 20 etc.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Avoth_deRabbi_Nathan" class="mw-redirect" title="Avoth deRabbi Nathan">Avoth deRabbi Nathan</a> 5:2; <a href="/wiki/Maimonides" title="Maimonides">Maimonides</a>, commentary to <a href="/wiki/Pirkei_Avot" title="Pirkei Avot">Pirkei Avot</a> 1:3</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Talmud Bavli Gittin 56b</span> </li> </ol></div> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FABE60;"><a href="/wiki/Israelites" title="Israelites">Israelite religious titles</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Abiathar" title="Abiathar">Abiathar</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/List_of_High_Priests_of_Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="List of High Priests of Israel">High Priest of Israel</a> </b> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ahimaaz" title="Ahimaaz">Ahimaaz</a></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid 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