Discovery Box1 Kings 1:38 
Context1:38 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
Context9:9 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
Context18:40 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.
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.”
