Add parallel Print Page Options

39 Zadok the priest took a horn filled with olive oil[a] from the tent and poured it on[b] Solomon; the trumpet was blown and all the people declared, “Long live King Solomon!”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 1:39 tn Heb “the horn of oil.” This has been specified as olive oil in the translation for clarity.sn A horn filled with oil. An animal’s horn was used as an oil flask in the anointing ceremony.
  2. 1 Kings 1:39 tn Or “anointed.”