Discovery Box1 Kings 1:33 
Context1:33 and he 1 told them, “Take your master’s 2 servants with you, put my son Solomon on my mule, and lead him down to Gihon. 3
1 Kings 1:38
Context1:38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites 4 went down, put Solomon on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon.
1 Kings 1:45
Context1:45 Then Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed 5 him king in Gihon. They went up from there rejoicing, and the city is in an uproar. That is the sound you hear.
1 tn Heb “the king.”
2 tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.
3 tn Heb “mount Solomon my son on the mule that belongs to me and take him down to Gihon.”
4 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.
5 tn I.e., designated by anointing with oil.
