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31 Bathsheba bowed down with her face to the ground, and laid herself face down before the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”

32 Then King David said, “Call Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada to me.” And they came before the king. 33 The king told them, “Take the [a]servants of your lord with you and have Solomon my son [b]ride on my own mule, and bring him down to [the spring at] [c]Gihon [in the Kidron Valley].

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 1:33 This group would have included David’s personal bodyguards.
  2. 1 Kings 1:33 Placing Solomon on his royal mule announced to the people that David had chosen Solomon as his successor.
  3. 1 Kings 1:33 This was near En-rogel, the site of Adonijah’s celebration.

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