And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule:
Ver. 44. And the king hath sent with him Zadok.] All this relation was to Adonijah and his guests, as those knuckles of a man's hand were to Belshazzar, to write them their destiny; or as Daniel was to him, to read it unto them.