3 Kings 1:39
And Sadoc the priest took a horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon: and they sounded the trumpet, and all the people said: God save king Solomon.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sumpsitque Sadoc sacerdos cornu olei de tabernaculo, et unxit Salomonem : et cecinerunt buccina, et dixit omnis populus : Vivat rex Salomon.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔλαβεν Σαδὼκ ὁ ἱερεὺς τὸ κέρας τοῦ ἐλαίου ἐκ τῆς σκηνῆς καὶ ἔχρισεν τὸν Σαλωμών, καὶ ἐσάλπισεν τῇ κερατίνῃ· καὶ εἶπεν πᾶς ὁ λαός Ζήτω ὁ βασιλεὺς Σαλωμών.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּקַּח֩ צָד֨וֹק הַכֹּהֵ֜ן אֶת קֶ֤רֶן הַשֶּׁ֨מֶן֙ מִן הָאֹ֔הֶל וַיִּמְשַׁ֖ח אֶת שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה וַֽיִּתְקְעוּ֙ בַּשּׁוֹפָ֔ר וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ כָּל הָעָ֔ם יְחִ֖י הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹֽה
Haydock's commentary
Horn of oil. Such liquors were commonly kept in vessels of horn. (Calmet)
Some say that oil, for the consecration of priests, was used on this occasion; and that the ceremony was performed only, when the throne was contested: as in the case of Joas, Joachaz, &c. (Haydock)
Nathan assisted Sadoc, (ver. 34,) who was not yet the high priest. (Menochius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Cyril of Jerusalem On the Mysteries. III: On Chrism
6. Moreover, you should know that in the old Scripture there lies the symbol of this Chrism. For what time Moses imparted to his brother the command of God, and made him High-priest, after bathing in water, he anointed him; and Aaron was called Christ or Anointed, evidently from the typical Chrism. So also the High-priest, in advancing Solomon to the kingdom, anointed him after he had bathed in Gihon. To them however these things happened in a figure, but to you not in a figure, but in truth; because ye were truly anointed by the Holy Ghost. Christ is the beginning of your salvation; for He is truly the First-fruit, and ye the mass; but if the First-fruit be holy, it is manifest that Its holiness will pass to the mass also.