1 Kings 4:5

And Azariah the son of Nathan [Azariah was clearly not an uncommon name (verse. 2, and cf. 1 Chronicles 2:39 ; 1 Chronicles 5:1-26 :36-40 Hebrews; A. Hebrews 6:9-14 ), especially in the high priest's family. Keil and Bähr pronounce somewhat positively that this Nathan is not the prophet of that name, but Nathan the son of David ( 2 Samuel 5:14 ; Luke 3:31 ). It is quite impossible to decide with certainty which is meant, if either, though Zechariah 12:12 undoubtedly favours the supposition that the latter is here intended] was over the officers [the twelve prefects mentioned in Zechariah 12:7 sqq.]: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer [Heb. priest, Vulg . sacerdos. Singularly, as before, the LXX . (Vat.) omits the word. The expression can hardly mean "the son of Nathan the priest," but it may either signify that "Zabud ben Nathan, a priest, was king's friend," or that (as in the A. V.) he was a priest and king's friend. But the former is every way preferable. I find it easier to believe that the true import of 2 Samuel 8:18 the passage which is cited (sometimes along with 2 Samuel 20:26 , where the LXX ; however, has ἱερεύς ) to prove that there were secular "priests"—is not yet understood, than to hold (with Gesenius, Ewald, etc.), that there were sacrificing priests who were not of the sons of Aaron (cf. 2 Chronicles 26:18 ), or that the word כהֵן , the meaning of which was thoroughly fixed and understood, can have been familiarly applied, except in the strictly conventional way already indicated, to lay persons], and [omit] the king's friend . ["This appears to have been now a recognized office ( 2 Samuel 15:37 ; 2 Samuel 16:16 ; 1 Chronicles 27:33 )," Rawlinson.]