1 Kings 1:37-38

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!” ¹ 

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.

[1:37]  ¹ tn Heb “and may he make his throne greater than the throne of my master King David.”

[1:38]  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.