1 Kings 1:39

a horn of oil The Hebrew has the horn. The -holy anointing oil" was no doubt preserved for occasions like this, and for the anointing of the priests. Zadok having the care of the tabernacle at Gibeon (1 Chronicles 16:39) would have this under his charge. And as Gibeon was -the great high place" (1 Kings 3:4), all that was most sacred would be kept there.

out of the tabernacle The word here rendered -tabernacle" is not the same as that so rendered in the passage from 1 Chron. just quoted, and it is advisable to make a distinction between them. The word in this verse is that usually translated, when it does not refer to the sacred dwellingplace of God's glory, by the English -tent" (Genesis 9:21 &c.) and it would be well so to render here. In no other passage in Scripture does the word occur of the Divine dwellingplace without some qualifying expression added to it. It is -the tabernacle of the congregation," -the tabernacle of witness," -the tabernacle of the Lord." In all these cases - Tent " might well be substituted. This word refers to the external covering of black goats" hair, while the other word implies the interior, the very dwellingplace of God, and for this -Tabernacle" might be specially retained.

all the people said Solomon's anointing was made a public ceremonial, news of what was to be done would go forth during the time that a messenger went to Gibeon for the sacred oil, and thus there seems to have been present not only those whom David had commissioned but a large body of the people of Jerusalem.