³³he said to them: “Take your lord’s servants with you and have Solomon my son mount my own mule^c and take him down to Gihon.^d ³⁴There have Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint^e him king over Israel. Blow the trumpet^f and shout, ‘Long live King Solomon!’ ³⁵Then you are to go up with him, and he is to come and sit on my throne and reign in my place. I have appointed him ruler over Israel and Judah.”

³⁶Benaiah son of Jehoiada answered the king, “Amen! May the Lord, the God of my lord the king, so declare it. ³⁷As the Lord was with my lord the king, so may he be with^g Solomon to make his throne even greater^h than the throne of my lord King David!”

³⁸So Zadokⁱ the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites^j and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon mount King David’s mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.^k ³⁹Zadok the priest took the horn of oil^l from the sacred tent^m and anointed Solomon. Then they sounded the trumpetⁿ and all the people shouted,^o “Long live King Solomon!” ⁴⁰And all the people went up after him, playing pipes^p and rejoicing greatly, so that the ground shook with the sound.

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Cross references

c Jdg 10:4; Zec 9:9
dver 38; 2 Ch 32:30; 33:14
eSee 1 Sa 2:35; 10:1
fSee 2 Sa 15:10
g Jos 1:5, 17
hver 47
iver 8
jSee 1 Sa 30:14; See 2 Sa 15:18
kSee ver 33
lSee Ex 29:7; See 1 Sa 10:1; 2 Ki 11:12; Ps 89:20
mSee Ex 26:1; See 27:21
nSee 2 Sa 15:10; 2 Ki 11:14
over 34; Nu 23:21; Ps 47:5; Zec 9:9
pSee 1 Sa 10:5