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1Ki 1:33 Strong Concordance The king [04428] also said [0559] unto them, Take [03947] with you the servants [05650] of your lord [0113], and cause Solomon [08010] my son [01121] to ride [07392] upon mine own mule [06506], and bring him down [03381] to Gihon [01521]:
  King James 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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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
SOLOMON, BY DAVID'S APPOINTMENT, IS ANOINTED KING. (1Ki. 1:32-49)

cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule--Directions were forthwith given for the immediate coronation of Solomon. A procession was to be formed by the "servants of their lord"--that is, the king's bodyguard. Mules were then used by all the princes (Sa2 13:29); but there was a state mule of which all subjects were forbidden, under pain of death, to make use, without special permission; so that its being granted to Solomon was a public declaration in his favor as the future king (see on Est 6:8-9).

bring him down to Gihon--a pool or fountain on the west of Jerusalem (see on Ch2 32:30), chosen as equally public for the counter proclamation.
 
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30 This same Hezekiah [03169] also stopped [05640] the upper [05945] watercourse [04161] [04325] of Gihon [01521], and brought it straight [03474] down [04295] to the west side [04628] of the city [05892] of David [01732]. And Hezekiah [03169] prospered [06743] in all his works [04639].
8 Let the royal [04438] apparel [03830] be brought [0935] which the king [04428] useth to wear [03847], and the horse [05483] that the king [04428] rideth [07392] upon, and the crown [03804] royal [04438] which is set [05414] upon his head [07218]:
9 And let this apparel [03830] and horse [05483] be delivered [05414] to the hand [03027] of one [0376] of the king's [04428] most noble [06579] princes [08269], that they may array [03847] the man [0376] withal whom the king [04428] delighteth [02654] to honour [03366], and bring [07392] him on horseback [05483] through the street [07339] of the city [05892], and proclaim [07121] before [06440] him, Thus shall it be done [06213] to the man [0376] whom the king [04428] delighteth [02654] to honour [03366].
29 And the servants [05288] of Absalom [053] did [06213] unto Amnon [0550] as Absalom [053] had commanded [06680]. Then all the king's [04428] sons [01121] arose [06965], and every man [0376] gat him up [07392] upon his mule [06505], and fled [05127].
9 And Absalom [053] met [07122] the servants [06440] [05650] of David [01732]. And Absalom [053] rode [07392] upon a mule [06505], and the mule [06505] went [0935] under the thick boughs [07730] of a great [01419] oak [0424], and his head [07218] caught hold [02388] of the oak [0424], and he was taken up [05414] between the heaven [08064] and the earth [0776]; and the mule [06505] that was under him went away [05674].
29 And the servants [05288] of Absalom [053] did [06213] unto Amnon [0550] as Absalom [053] had commanded [06680]. Then all the king's [04428] sons [01121] arose [06965], and every man [0376] gat him up [07392] upon his mule [06505], and fled [05127].