Zadok the priest; for though he was not the high priest, he might do this office, especially having the direction of the prophet Nathan, 1Ki_1:34.
Out of the tabernacle; that which David had erected for the ark, 2Sa_6:17, in which oil was kept for divers sacred uses; for Moses’s tabernacle was at Gibeon, 1Ch_16:39 21:29, which was too remote for the present occasion, which required all possible expedition.