Discovery Box1 Kings 1:31 
Context1:31 Bathsheba bowed down to the king with her face to the floor 1 and said, “May my master, King David, live forever!”
1 Kings 1:34-39
Context1:34 There Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet will anoint 2 him king over Israel; then blow the trumpet and declare, ‘Long live King Solomon!’ 1:35 Then follow him up as he comes and sits on my throne. He will be king in my place; I have decreed 3 that he will be ruler over Israel and Judah.” 1:36 Benaiah son of Jehoiada responded 4 to the king: “So be it! 5 May the Lord God of my master the king confirm it! 6 1:37 As the Lord is with my master the king, so may he be with Solomon, and may he make him an even greater king than my master King David!” 7
1:38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites 8 went down, put Solomon on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon. 1:39 Zadok the priest took a horn filled with olive oil 9 from the tent and poured it on 10 Solomon; the trumpet was blown and all the people declared, “Long live King Solomon!”
1 tn Heb “bowed low, face [to] the ground, and bowed down to the king.”
2 tn Or “designate” (i.e., by anointing with oil).
3 tn Or “commanded.”
4 tn Heb “answered and said.”
5 tn Or “Amen.”
6 tn Heb “So may the
7 tn Heb “and may he make his throne greater than the throne of my master King David.”
8 sn The Kerethites and Pelethites were members of David’s royal guard (see 2 Sam 8:18). The Kerethites may have been descendants of an ethnic group originating in Crete.
9 tn Heb “the horn of oil.” This has been specified as olive oil in the translation for clarity.
sn A horn filled with oil. An animal’s horn was used as an oil flask in the anointing ceremony.
10 tn Or “anointed.”
