Stop 32 · Kings, Prophets and Return

Gihon and the Kidron

Solomon anointed

Jerusalem, the stops of the bookKidron3131. Jerusalem, the City of David3232. Gihon and the Kidron3333. Moriah and the Temple Mount4242. Hinnom and the fall of Jerusalem4343. Nehemiah's wall4848. The Southern Steps5454. Bethesda6363. Siloam6666. Bethphage and the Mount of Olives6767. The Temple, again6868. Gethsemane6969. Caiaphas' house and Gallicantu7070. The Praetorium and the Via Dolorosa7171. Golgotha and the tomb7373. Mount Zion and the Upper Room7474. Jerusalem8484. Jerusalem, the New
From 30,000 feet

At the spring below the city a boy is put on his father's mule and the ground shakes with the shouting. The only water source Jerusalem ever had.

Stop 32 of 84. This is Jerusalem. Next stop, Moriah and the Temple Mount, is in the same city.

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1 Kings 1:32-40

32King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” They came before the king. 33The 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. 34Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel. Blow the trumpet, and say, ‘Long live king Solomon!’ 35Then come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place. I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah.” 36Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, “Amen. May Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say so. 37As Yahweh has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.” 38So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon. 39Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, “Long live king Solomon!” 40All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with their sound.

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