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Adonijah has taken the kingship to which God Himself 

 appointed me, even before I had renounced it or He 

 Who had chosen me had removed me, he shall fall in 

 disgrace from this dignity, as that one fell who in 

 arrogant pride raised the first rebellion against his 

 Lord." 



Then David said to Zadoc the bishop: "Take my 

 mule and harness him with all the accoutrements with 

 which he was arrayed when I rode him in all my glory 

 and set my son Solomon upon him; iand taking Nathan ~J 

 the prophet with you and Benaiah the captain and all ^ 

 my most loyal chiefs and knights, ride to the tabernacle S 

 of the Lord in Zion * and there anoint my son Solomon^/ 

 king.JThen take my own trumpet and let it be sounded 

 throughout the city with a festive sound to proclaim 

 that Solomon is king by the will of God and David's 

 choice. After that you shall bring my son Solomon to 

 me that I may welcome the newly appointed king to my 

 throne." When David had ceased speaking, Zadoc the 

 bishop did all those things that the king had com- 

 manded. And when Solomon returned arrayed in all 

 the tokens of royalty, David rose to receive him, bowed 

 before him, and blessed him in these words: " Praise be 

 to Thee, O God, that Thou wert pleased to exalt me 

 from my low estate to such high honors as I now enjoy, 

 and hast helped me in many perils, and now after much 

 trouble and long toil hast brought me the consolation 

 that mine eyes should behold the one sprung from my 

 loins whom Thou hast Thyself chosen to sit in the seat 

 of honor to which Thou didst formerly appoint me, ac- 



* Error for Gihon. 



