"And King David said, 'Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.' And they came before the king." — David now summons the power structure he will use to enforce his will: Zadok (the priest who will anoint Solomon), Nathan (the prophet who will validate the succession), and Benaiah (the military force who will execute it). The summons is peremptory—*karah li et-Tsadoq*—and the three respond immediately. The enumeration (*ha-kohen ... ha-navi ... ben-Yehoyada*) emphasizes that David is marshaling the three pillars of institutional authority: priesthood, prophecy, and military. This is David's counter-coalition, assembled to execute his will before Adonijah's ceremony can crystallize further.

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