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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