(32) В¶ 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.
Beside the historical relation of this event, the principal beauty of the passage is to look through it to the spiritual reference it hath to the throne of Jesus. Who, indeed, can read David's appointment of Solomon to the throne of Israel, without calling to recollection how God, even the Father, hath set his king upon his holy hill of Zion? Sweetly did the angel, in his salutation to Mary, make this one principal feature of Jesus; "He shall be great (said he) and shall be called, The son of the highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: and of his kingdom there shall be no end." Luke 1:32.