1 Kings 3:5

In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said: 'Ask what I shall give thee.'

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

In Context

4And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place; a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

6And Solomon said: 'Thou hast shown unto Thy servant David my father great kindness, according as he walked before Thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with Thee; and Thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that Thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

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Cross References

Genesis 28:12And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

1 Kings 9:2that the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as He had appeared unto him at Gibeon.

2 Chronicles 1:7In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him: 'Ask what I shall give thee.'

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 3:2-5

Solomon Marries Pharaoh's Daughter. ( b. c. 1014.) 1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the Lord , and the wall of Jerusalem round about. 2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord , until those days. 3 And Solomon loved the Lord , walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and… Read the whole commentary →

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