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1 Kings 1:36-38
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1 Kings 1:36-38
New English Translation
36 Benaiah son of Jehoiada responded[a] to the king: “So be it![b] May the Lord God of my master the king confirm it![c] 37 As the Lord is with my master the king, so may he be with Solomon, and may he make him an even greater king than my master King David!”[d]
38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites[e] went down, put Solomon on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon.
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- 1 Kings 1:36 tn Heb “answered and said.”
- 1 Kings 1:36 tn Or “Amen.”
- 1 Kings 1:36 tn Heb “So may the Lord God of my master the king say.”
- 1 Kings 1:37 tn Heb “and may he make his throne greater than the throne of my master King David.”
- 1 Kings 1:38 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.
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