2 Chronicles 1:8

Solomon replied, “You were very kind to David my father, and now you have appointed me to be the king to succeed him.

Translation for Translators

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 in a dream and said to him, “Request whatever you want me to give to you.”

9So Yahweh my God, you have caused me to become the king to rule people who are as many as the particles of dirt on the earth. So do what you promised my father David.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 12:7Nathan said to David, “You are the man I have been talking about! And this is what Yahweh, the God we Israelis worship, says to you: ‘I appointed you to be king of Israel, after having rescued you from Saul.

1 Chronicles 17:16Then David went into the Sacred Tent and sat in the presence of Yahweh, and prayed this: “Yahweh my God, I am certainly not [RHQ] worthy for you to have done all these things for me, and my family is not worthy, either.

1 Chronicles 29:23So Solomon sat on the throne because Yahweh wanted him to be the king to succeed his father David. During the following years Solomon prospered, and all the Israeli people obeyed him.

Psalms 86:13You faithfully love me very much; you have prevented me from dying and going to the place where dead people are.

Psalms 89:49Yahweh, you promised long ago that you would faithfully love us; why are you not doing that? You solemnly promised that 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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