| I Kings 1:33
| He said to them: Take with you the servants of your lord, and set my son Solomon upon my mule: and bring him to Gihon:
| Lord, David. (Menochius) --- The Cerethi, and other life-guards, went under the command of their captain, Banaias, (Calmet) to repel any force that might disturb this solemn inauguration. (Haydock) --- Mule. None but the king was allowed to mount it. --- Gihon, a fountain, or place of public resort, on the west of Jerusalem. Ezechias brought its waters into the city, 2 Paralipomenon 32:30. (Calmet) --- Adonias was at Rogel, on the east. (Menochius)
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