³³The king said to them, “Take my servants^g with you, have my son Solomon ride on my own mule,^h and take him down to Gihon.ⁱ ³⁴There, the priest Zadok and the prophet Nathan are to anoint him as king over Israel.^j You are to blow the trumpet^k and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’^l ³⁵You are to come up after him, and he is to come in and sit on my throne. He is the one who is to become king in my place; he is the one I have commanded to be ruler^m over Israel and Judah.”ⁿ

³⁶“Amen,” Benaiah son of Jehoiada replied to the king. “May the Lord, the God of my lord the king, so affirm it.^o ³⁷Just as the Lord was with my lord the king,^p so may he^C be with Solomon and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David.”^q

³⁸Then the priest Zadok, the prophet Nathan, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites^r went down, had Solomon ride on King David’s mule, and took him to Gihon. ³⁹The priest Zadok took the horn of oil from the tabernacle and anointed Solomon.^s Then they blew the trumpet,^t and all the people proclaimed, “Long live King Solomon!”^u

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Cross references

g 2Sm 20:6
h 2Sm 18:9; Est 6:8; Zch 9:9; Jn 12:14–15
i 2Ch 32:30; 33:14
j 1Sm 10:1; 16:3,13
k 2Sm 15:10
l 1Sm 10:24; 1Kg 1:25
m 1Sm 13:14
n 2Sm 2:4; 5:3
o Jr 28:6
p 1Sm 20:13
q 1Kg 1:47
r 2Sm 8:18
s 1Ch 29:22
t 2Kg 11:14
u 1Sm 10:24