2 Chronicles 1:7

That night, God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask for what you want me to give you.”

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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

6Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the LORD, which was at the Tent of Meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings on it.

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

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:5In Gibeon, the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give you.”

Matthew 7:7“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Mark 10:51Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “Rabboni, that I may see again.”

1 John 5:14This is the boldness which we have towards him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to 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 →

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