2 Chronicles 1:8

Solomon replied to God: “You have shown much loving devotion to my father David, and You have made me king in his place.

Majority Standard Bible

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

7That night God appeared to Solomon and said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”

9Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to my father David be fulfilled. For You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 12:7Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

1 Chronicles 17:16Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?

1 Chronicles 29:23So Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king in place of his father David. He prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.

Psalms 86:13For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.

Psalms 89:49Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?

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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