This chapter continues the narrative of the previous chapter, with the same vivid detail and graphic style. The account as given in Chronicles omits the story of Adonijah’s insurrection and gives instead an account of a great assemblage of “all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites,” “the captains of the companies that ministered to the king,” and the leading men of all the realm (1 Chron. 23:1, 2; chs. 28, 29), for the making of Solomon “king the second time” (ch. 29:22). Both Saul (1 Sam. 11:14, 15) and David (2 Sam. 5:1-3) had been set apart a second time as king, and thus it was also in the case of Solomon. His first anointing was on quick notice on a rather impromptu occasion, called for by the pressure of circumstances, at which time only a few of the people from the immediate vicinity could be present. Thus it was only fitting that there should be a second and more general coronation, with due solemnity and display, before the representatives of the entire nation.