2 Chronicles 1:9

Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be carried out, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

Unlocked Literal Bible

In The King James Version

Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

In Context

8Solomon said to God, “You have shown great covenant faithfulness to David my father, and have made me king in his place.

10Now give me wisdom and knowledge, so that I may lead this people, for who can judge your people, who are so many in number?”

Read all of 2 Chronicles 1

Cross References

Genesis 13:16I will make your descendants as abundant as the dust of the earth, so that if a man could count the dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be counted.

Numbers 23:10Who can count the dust of Jacob 2 or number even only one-fourth of Israel? 1 Let me die the death of a righteous person, 2 and let my life's end be like his!”

2 Samuel 7:25So now, Yahweh God, may the promise that you made concerning your servant and his family be established forever. Do as you have spoken.

1 Chronicles 17:11It will come about that when your days are fulfilled for you to go to your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, and for one of your own descendants, I will establish his kingdom.

1 Chronicles 28:5From the many sons whom Yahweh has given me, he chose Solomon, my son, to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Yahweh, over Israel.

Psalms 89:35Once and for all I have sworn by my holiness— 1 I will not lie to David: 1

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study 2 Chronicles 1:9