Daily Tanach Monday Shmuel 2 Chapter 20 Part 4: The positions held by the various personalities loyal to Dovid

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1.      The positions held by the various personalities loyal to Dovid:

  • Yoav: Yoav was the general over the army of Israel.
  • Benaya Ben Yehoyada: Benaya Ben Yehoyada was in charge of the Kreisi Upleisi [i.e. the archers[1]; or the Sanhedrin[2]; or the nations named Kreisi and Pleisi[3]].
  • Adoram: Adoram was the tax collector [to collect taxes from the gentile nations that the Jews had sovereignty over[4], and likewise to collect the income tax from the Jewish people[5]].
  • Yehoshafat the son of Achilud: Yehoshafat the son of Achilud was the secretary [in charge of writing the Chronicles of history[6]].
  • Sheva: Sheva was the scribe of Dovid [in charge of the accounting of the treasury and taxes[7]].
  • Tzadok and Avyasar: Tzadok and Avyasar were the priests under Dovid [Tzadok being the high priest and Avyasar being his vice high priest[8]], as well as Ira Hayairi was a priest for Dovid [to whom Dovid would give all of his personal priestly gifts[9], and was appointed an aristocrat and advisor of Dovid and in charge of leading the Jewish people and as the Mashuach Milchama[10]].

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[1] Radak 20:23

[2] Ralbag 20:23

[3] Pirush Riy Karo 20:23

[4] Ralbag 20:24

[5] Pirush Rav Yeshaya and Metzudos Dovid 20:24

[6] Metzudos Dovid 20:24

[7] See Ralbag 20:25

[8] Metzudos Dovid 20:26

[9] Rashi 20:26; Eiruvin 63a

[10] Metzudos Dovid 20:26

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