10 Facts About Zadok

Zadok was a Kohen, biblically recorded to be a descendant from Eleazar the son of Aaron.

Zadok was the High Priest of Israel during the reigns of David and Solomon.

Zadok aided King David during the revolt of his son Absalom, was instrumental in bringing Solomon to the throne and officiated at Solomon's coronation.

Tanakh states that Zadok was a patrilineal descendant of Eleazar the son of Aaron the high priest.

In 1 Chronicles 16:39 Zadok is named as the leader of the priests who served "before the tabernacle of the Lord at the high place that was at Gibeon", 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.

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Zadok's sons were Ahimaaz and Azariah followed by his descendants who held the high priesthood up to the destruction of the First Temple and, following the building of the second temple, resumed the high priesthood, as per Joshua the High Priest being of Sons of Zadok lineage.

The descendants of Zadok increased in rank and influence, so that his son Azariah was one of the princes of Solomon and Ahimaaz, who married a daughter of Solomon, was probably another of Zadok's sons.

House of Zadok occupied the high priesthood through much of the Second Temple period, from Jehoshua ben Jehozadak after the Exile, down to Simon II, his eldest son Onias III, and his usurping second son Jason, who introduced the programme of Hellenisation that eventually led to the Maccabean Revolt.

Under this theory the Aaronic lineage ascribed to Zadok is a later, anachronistic interpolation.

Rabbi Zadok is mentioned as saved in Talmud by Yohanan ben Zakkai, when he makes his deal with Vespasian.