1 Kings 1:33

1 Kings 1:33

31 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and paid homage to the king, and said, ^a“Let my lord King David live forever!”

32 And King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” So they came before the king.

33 The king also said to them, ^a“Take with you the servants of your lord, and have Solomon my son ride on my own ^bmule, and take him down to ^cGihon.

34 There let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet ^aanoint him king over Israel; and ^bblow the horn, and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’

35 Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne, and he shall be king in my place. For I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and Judah.”

36 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said, ^a“Amen! May the Lord God of my lord the king say so too.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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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.

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