1 Kings 1:31

1:31 Bathsheba bowed down to the king with her face to the floor 1  and said, “May my master, King David, live forever!”

1 Kings 1:34-39

1:34 There Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet will anoint 2  him king over Israel; then blow the trumpet and declare, ‘Long live King Solomon!’ 1:35 Then follow him up as he comes and sits on my throne. He will be king in my place; I have decreed 3  that he will be ruler over Israel and Judah.” 1:36 Benaiah son of Jehoiada responded 4  to the king: “So be it! 5  May the Lord God of my master the king confirm it! 6  1:37 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!” 7 

1:38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites 8  went down, put Solomon on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon. 1:39 Zadok the priest took a horn filled with olive oil 9  from the tent and poured it on 10  Solomon; the trumpet was blown and all the people declared, “Long live King Solomon!”

1 tn Heb “bowed low, face [to] the ground, and bowed down to the king.”

2 tn Or “designate” (i.e., by anointing with oil).

3 tn Or “commanded.”

4 tn Heb “answered and said.”

5 tn Or “Amen.”

6 tn Heb “So may the Lord God of my master the king say.”

7 tn Heb “and may he make his throne greater than the throne of my master King David.”

8 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.

9 tn Heb “the horn of oil.” This has been specified as olive oil in the translation for clarity.

10 tn Or “anointed.”