Place

Gihon

기혼

Named at 1 Kings 1:33, where King David says, “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.” At 1:38 Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites have Solomon ride on King David’s mule, and bring him to Gihon. At 1:45 Jonathan says to Adonijah, “Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. They have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again.”

Directly connected entries 2

Direct relationships 2

Open in the full graph

Collected relationship evidence

Source-backed narrative relations; not independent historical verification. Legacy dates and coordinates are outside this review.

Collection & rights

Source evidence (4)

AI-assisted comparison with the cited narrative; not independent historical verification.

1KI 1:32–40, engwebp
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 the LORD, the God of my lord the king, say so.
³⁷As the LORD 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.
Publisher text Rights & provenance
1KI 1:41–48, engwebp
⁴¹Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?”
⁴²While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said, “Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news.”
⁴³Jonathan answered Adonijah, “Most certainly our lord King David has made Solomon king.
⁴⁴The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king’s mule.
⁴⁵Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. They have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard.
⁴⁶Also, Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.
⁴⁷Moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne;’ and the king bowed himself on the bed.
⁴⁸Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’”
Publisher text Rights & provenance
2CH 32:27–30, engwebp
²⁷Hezekiah had exceedingly great riches and honor. He provided himself with treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of valuable vessels;
²⁸also storehouses for the increase of grain, new wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of animals, and flocks in folds.
²⁹Moreover he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him abundant possessions.
³⁰This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
Publisher text Rights & provenance
2CH 33:14–17, engwebp
¹⁴Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
¹⁵He took away the foreign gods and the idol out of the LORD’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the LORD’s house and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
¹⁶He built up the LORD’s altar, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.
¹⁷Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to the LORD their God.
Publisher text Rights & provenance

AI-assisted, human review pending, 2026-09-26

Machine comparison on 2026-10-07: the wording raised none of the 3 rules against the passages this entry cites. No person has read it.

Geographic sources & candidates

Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Gihon 2” by name and 6 shared verses. The coordinate of its leading identification, Gihon Spring (confidence 1000 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event.

AI-assisted source review; human approval pending, 2026-09-29

Gihon Spring
OpenBible.info confidence 1000 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.77292, 35.23638
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Gihon 2” (CC BY 4.0)

Original editorial notes; linked source texts retain their own rights. Candidate lists are not exhaustive.

All 2 relationships: AI-assisted, human review pending

Narrated location (2) — Solomon rides on King David’s mule to Gihon, and Zadok the priest anoints him, Hezekiah builds storehouses and directs Gihon’s upper waters west of David’s city

A relationship with an event rests on the passages the event cites: each event’s page has them.

Verses tagged with this entry

Names in the World English Bible text that carry this entry’s tag. They are carried over from the tags on the Korean Revised Version, which are matched by name inside chapters that already have collected evidence, and a verse where the English says “he” carries none. All await human review. They are a separate list from the source passages above. An empty list does not mean the entry is absent from the text.

5 verses

1 Kings 1:33 Open that verse

The 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.

1 Kings 1:38 Open that verse

So 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.

1 Kings 1:45 Open that verse

Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. They have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard.

2 Chronicles 32:30 Open that verse

This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

2 Chronicles 33:14 Open that verse

Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

Something looks wrong in this entry?

This prepares a report carrying the entry, what it currently says and what it cites, so a reviewer can act on it. Nothing leaves this page until you press Send; the operator alone reads what you send.

What looks wrong

Write what looks wrong first; a report without it cannot be acted on.

This is exactly what gets copied or sent:

[Bibliadatum entry report]

Entry: Gihon (place-gihon)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/gihon
Current wording: Named at 1 Kings 1:33, where King David says, “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.” At 1:38 Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites have Solomon ride on King David’s mule, and bring him to Gihon. At 1:45 Jonathan says to Adonijah, “Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. They have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again.”
Cited evidence: 1KI 1:32–40, engwebp / 1KI 1:41–48, engwebp / 2CH 32:27–30, engwebp / 2CH 33:14–17, engwebp
Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending

What looks wrong:
(not written yet)

---
This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.