1 Kings 1:32

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

³²Then King David said, "Call in for me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada." So they came before the king.³³"Take my servants with you," said the king. "Set my son Solomon on my own mule and take him down to Gihon. ³⁴There Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet are to anoint him king over Israel. You are to blow the trumpet and declare, 'Long live King Solomon!' ³⁵Then you shall go up with him, and he is to come and sit on my throne and reign in my place. For I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and Judah." ³⁶"Amen," replied Benaiah son of Jehoiada. "May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, so declare it. ³⁷Just as the LORD was with my lord the king, so may He be with Solomon and make his throne even greater than that of my lord King David." ³⁸Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, went down and set Solomon on King David's mule, and they escorted him to Gihon. ³⁹Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tabernacle and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people proclaimed, "Long live King Solomon!" ⁴⁰All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Zadok: 1 Kings 1:8, 1 Kings 1:26, 1 Kings 1:38

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 1:43 - Verily 2 Chronicles 9:29 - Nathan Proverbs 9:8 - rebuke Proverbs 28:23 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And King David said, call me Zadok the priest,.... Not Abiathar the high priest, for he had joined Adonijah; and besides Zadok was David's favourite priest, and for him the high priesthood was designed, as it was in a little time translated to him:

and Nathan the prophet; who very probably went out of the room when Bathsheba was called in: and

Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; the captain of his guards:

and they came before the king; who it is very likely sat up in his bed, and they stood around him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The combination of the high priest, the prophet, and the captain of the bodyguard (the Cherethites and Pelethites, 1 Kings 1:38), would show the people that the proceedings had the king’s sanction. The order of the names marks the position of the persons with respect to the matter in hand.