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David ordered that Solomon ride on the king’s mule, be taken to Gihon, and be anointed there by Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet (1 Kings 1:33-34). The trumpet was blown and the people proclaimed, “Long live king Solomon” (1 Kings 1:39). The procession returned with rejoicing so that “the earth rent with the sound of them” (1 Kings 1:40).
33The king said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
34and let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel; and blow you the trumpet, and say, [Long] live king Solomon.
35Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place; and I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah.
36Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say so [too].
37As Yahweh has been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.
38So 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 on king David`s mule, and brought him to Gihon.
39Zadok the priest took the horn of oil out of the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, [Long] live king Solomon.
40All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with the sound of them.