Discovery Box1 Kings 1:38 
Context1:38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites 1 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 2 him king in Gihon. They went up from there rejoicing, and the city is in an uproar. That is the sound you hear.
1 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.
2 tn I.e., designated by anointing with oil.
