1 Kings 1:38

1:38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites ¹  went down, put Solomon on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon.

1 Kings 9:9

9:9 Others will then answer, ²  ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors ³  out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. ⁴  That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”

1 Kings 18:40

18:40 Elijah told them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let even one of them escape!” So they seized them, and Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley and executed ⁵  them there.

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¹ sn The Kerethites and Pelethites were members of David’s royal guard (see 2 Sam 8:18). The Kerethites may have been descendants of an ethnic group originating in Crete.

² tn Heb “and they will say.”

³ tn Heb “fathers.”

⁴ tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

⁵ tn Or “slaughtered.”