2 Chronicles 1:7
And behold that night God appeared to him, saying: Ask what thou wilt that I should give thee.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 3:5And the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, saying : Ask what thou wilt that I should give thee.
Matthew 7:7Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.
Mark 10:51And Jesus answering, said to him: What wilt thou that I should do to thee? And the blind man said to him: Rabboni, that I may see.
1 John 5:14And this is the confidence which we have towards him: That, whatsoever we shall ask according to his will, he heareth us.
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 →