Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
SOLOMON, BY DAVID'S APPOINTMENT, IS ANOINTED KING. (1Ki. 1:32-49)
cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule—Directions were forthwith given for the immediate coronation of Solomon. A procession was to be formed by the "servants of their lord"—that is, the king's bodyguard. Mules were then used by all the princes (II Samuel 13:29); but there was a state mule of which all subjects were forbidden, under pain of death, to make use, without special permission; so that its being granted to Solomon was a public declaration in his favor as the future king (see on Esther 6:8-9).
bring him down to Gihon—a pool or fountain on the west of Jerusalem (see on II Chronicles 32:30), chosen as equally public for the counter proclamation.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Kings 1:33:
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