³³The 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. ⁹³⁴There let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet ^danoint him king over Israel; and ^eblow the horn, and say, ¹‘Long live King Solomon!’ ³⁵Then 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.”

³⁶Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said, ^f“Amen! May the Lord God of my lord the king say so too. ³⁷^gAs the Lord has been with my lord the king, even so may He be with Solomon, and ^hmake his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David.”

³⁸So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, ⁱBenaiah the son of Jehoiada, the ^jCherethites, and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David’s mule, and took him to Gihon. ³⁹Then Zadok the priest took a horn of ^koil from the tabernacle and ^lanointed Solomon. And they blew the horn, ^mand all the people said, ²“Long live King Solomon!” ⁴⁰And all the people went up after him; and the people played the flutes and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth seemed to split with their sound.

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Footnotes

9A spring east of Jerusalem in the Kidron Valley
1Lit. Let King Solomon live
2Lit. Let King Solomon live

Cross references

a 2 Sam. 20:6
b Esth. 6:8
c 2 Chr. 32:30; 33:14
d 1 Sam. 10:1; 16:3, 12; 2 Sam. 2:4; 5:3; 1 Kin. 19:16; 2 Kin. 9:3; 11:12; 1 Chr. 29:22
e 2 Sam. 15:10; 2 Kin. 9:13; 11:14
f Jer. 28:6
g Josh. 1:5, 17; 1 Sam. 20:13
h 1 Kin. 1:47
i 2 Sam. 8:18; 23:20–23
j 2 Sam. 20:7; 1 Chr. 18:17
k Ex. 30:23, 25, 32; Ps. 89:20
l 1 Chr. 29:22
m 1 Sam. 10:24