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1 Kings 1:38

in 1 Kings 1

Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, went down and set Solomon on King David’s mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

This verse in 1 Kings 1

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada,.... The three men that David sent for on this occasion: and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; not the sanhedrim, as Ben Gersom, but David's guards, over whom Benaiah was: these went down; from Jerusalem; and caused Solomon to ride upon King David's mule; as he had ordered: and brought him to Gihon; or Siloah, as the Targum; hence the Jews say (e), they do not anoint a king but at a fountain; but this is the only instance of it. (e) T. Bab. Ceritot, fol.

This site's exposition

the Cherethites, and the Pelethites

on 1 Kings 1:38-39

The order is carried out exactly as given: Zadok, Nathan, Benaiah, the Cherethites and the Pelethites, David's own bodyguard, escort Solomon to Gihon on the king's mule. Zadok anoints him with oil out of the tabernacle itself, and the trumpet sounds the same cry ordered in verse thirty-four. Every element of David's command from the prior unit is now executed in the order it was spoken.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

No time was lost, but Solomon was brought in state to the place appointed, and there Zadok (who, though he was not as yet high priest, was, we may suppose, the suffragan, the Jews called him the sagan, or second priest) anointed him by the direction of Nathan the prophet and David the king,

The words behind it

21 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֵּ֣רֶדand he went down

    vaiyeredH3381381 times

  • צָד֣וֹקZadok

    tzadokH665953 times

  • הַ֠כֹּהֵןthe priest

    hakohenH3548750 times

  • וְנָתָ֨ןand Nathan

    venatanH541641 times

  • הַנָּבִ֜יאthe prophet

    hanavi'H5030314 times

  • וּבְנָיָ֣הוּand Benaiah

    uvenayahuH114142 times

  • בֶן־[the] son of

    ven-H11214930 times

  • יְהוֹיָדָ֗עJehoiada

    yehoyada'H307751 times

  • וְהַכְּרֵתִי֙and the Kerethite[s]

    vehakeretiH3774

  • וְהַפְּלֵתִ֔יand the Pelethite[s]

    vehapeletiH6432

  • וַיַּרְכִּ֙בוּ֙and they caused to ride

    vaiyarkivuH739278 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֔הSolomon

    shelomohH8010291 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • פִּרְדַּ֖ת[the] mule of

    pirdatH65063 times

  • הַמֶּ֣לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH44282525 times

  • דָּוִ֑דDavid

    davidH1732999 times

  • וַיֹּלִ֥כוּand they brought

    vaiyolikhuH19801546 times

  • אֹת֖וֹ<obj.> him

    ʾotoH85310935 times

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • גִּחֽוֹן׃Gihon

    gichonH15216 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Zephaniah 2:5

    Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 25:16

      therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant along the coast.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Jeremiah 47:7

      How can it rest when the LORD has commanded it? He has appointed it against Ashkelon and the shore of its coastland.”

  • Through

    1 Samuel 30:14

    We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”

    it leads to

    • Zephaniah 2:5

      Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will…

    • 1 Kings 1:44

      And with Solomon, the king has sent Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, and they have set him on the king’s mule.

    • 2 Samuel 8:18

      Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priestly leaders.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 8:18

    Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priestly leaders.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 30:14

      We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”

    • 1 Chronicles 18:17

      Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief officials at the king’s side.

  • Through

    1 Kings 1:8

    But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s mighty men would not join Adonijah.

    it leads to

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This page draws on Alfred Edersheim, Bible History: Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.