2 Chronicles 1:8

And Solomon said to God, Thou hast shewn unto David my father great loving-kindness, and hast made me king in his stead.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.

In Context

7In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, Ask what I shall give thee.

9Now, Jehovah Elohim, let thy word unto David my father be firm; for thou hast made me king over a people numerous as the dust of the earth.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 12:7And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man! Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;

1 Chronicles 17:16And king David went in and sat before Jehovah, and said, Who am I, Jehovah Elohim, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?

1 Chronicles 29:23And Solomon sat on the throne of Jehovah as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.

Psalms 86:13For great is thy loving-kindness toward me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Psalms 89:49Where, Lord, are thy former loving-kindnesses, [which] thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 1:2-13

Second Chronicles This book begins with the reign of Solomon and the building of the temple, and continues the history of the kings of Judah thenceforward to the captivity and so concludes with the fall of that illustrious monarchy and the destruction of the temple. That monarchy of the house of David, as it was prior in time, so it was superior in worth and dignity to all those four celebrated ones of which Nebuchadnezzar dreamed. The Babylonian monarchy I reckon to begin in Nebuchadnezzar himself— Thou art that… Read the whole commentary →

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