KJV King James Version
The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
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1 Kings 1:33
The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“Take my servants with you,” said the king. “Set my son Solomon on my own mule and take him down to Gihon.
WEB World English Bible
The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.
ASV American Standard Version
And the king said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the king saith to them, ‘Take with you the servants of your lord, and ye have caused Solomon my son to ride on mine own mule, and caused him to go down unto Gihon,
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 1
30 Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.
31 Then Bathsheba bowed with [her] face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
32 And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.
33 The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon.
35 Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.
36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so [too].
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וַיֹּ֨אמֶרH559 · a.marto sayהַמֶּ֜לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingלָהֶ֗םH9038 · hemthemקְח֤וּH3947 · la.qachto take: takeעִמָּכֶם֙H5973 · imwithאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]עַבְדֵ֣יH5650 · e.vedservant/slaveאֲדֹנֵיכֶ֔םH113 · a.donlordוְהִרְכַּבְתֶּם֙H7392 · ra.khavto rideאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]שְׁלֹמֹ֣הH8010 · she.lo.mohSolomonבְנִ֔יH1121 · benson: childעַל־H5921 · aluponהַפִּרְדָּ֖הH6506 · pir.dahfemale muleאֲשֶׁר־H834 · a.sherwhichלִ֑יH9030 · nimeוְהוֹרַדְתֶּ֥םH3381 · ya.radto go downאֹת֖וֹH853 · et[Obj.]אֶל־H413 · elto(wards)גִּחֽוֹן׃H1521 · gi.chonGihon
Cross-references
2 Chronicles 32:30This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.1 Kings 1:38So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.2 Chronicles 33:14Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.1 Kings 1:5Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.Leviticus 19:19Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.Genesis 41:43And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him [ruler] over all the land of Egypt.1 Kings 1:44-45And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king’s mule:Esther 6:6-11So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?2 Samuel 20:6-7And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than [did] Absalom: take thou thy lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.
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