38 So Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites went down and caused Solomon to ride upon king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.

39 And Zadok the Priest took an horn of [a]oil out of the Tabernacle, and anointed Solomon: and they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, God save king Solomon.

40 And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth [b]rang with the sound of them.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 1:39 Wherewith they accustomed to anoint the Priests and the holy instruments, Exod. 30:23.
  2. 1 Kings 1:40 Hebrew, brake.

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