1 Kings 1:38

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

the Cherethites: 1 Samuel 30:14, 2 Samuel 8:18, 2 Samuel 15:18, 2 Samuel 20:20-23, 1 Chronicles 18:17, Zephaniah 2:5

king David's: 1 Kings 1:33

Reciprocal: Genesis 36:24 - found 2 Samuel 20:7 - General 2 Samuel 23:20 - Benaiah 1 Kings 1:32 - Zadok 1 Chronicles 11:22 - Benaiah 2 Chronicles 32:30 - Gihon

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada,.... The three men that David sent for on this occasion:

and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; not the sanhedrim, as Ben Gersom, but David's guards, over whom Benaiah was: these

went down; from Jerusalem;

and caused Solomon to ride upon King David's mule; as he had ordered:

and brought him to Gihon; or Siloah, as the Targum; hence the Jews say e, they do not anoint a king but at a fountain; but this is the only instance of it.

e T. Bab. Ceritot, fol. 5. 2.