³ Together with Zadok^(A) from the descendants of Eleazar and Ahimelech from the descendants of Ithamar, David divided them according to the assigned duties of their service.

⁶ The secretary, Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded them in the presence of the king and the officers, the priest Zadok, Ahimelech^(A) son of Abiathar, and the heads of families of the priests and the Levites. One ancestral family^[a] was taken for Eleazar, and then one for Ithamar.

³¹ They also cast lots the same way as their relatives the descendants of Aaron did in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the families of the priests and Levites—the family heads and their younger brothers alike.^(A)

²² They ate and drank with great joy in the Lord’s presence that day.

The Enthronement of Solomon

Then, for a second time,^(A) they made David’s son Solomon king; they anointed him^[a] as the Lord’s ruler,^(B) and Zadok as the priest.