1:38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites 2 went down, put Solomon on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon.
1 tn The word “visit” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
2 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.
3 tn Heb “carved carvings of.”
4 tn Heb “he plated [with] gold” (the precise object is not stated).
5 tn Heb “and he hammered out the gold on the cherubs and the palm trees.”