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Complete Jewish Bible

2 Chronicles 1:7

That night God appeared to Shlomo and said to him, "Tell me what I should give you."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Communion;   God;   Solomon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Appear, Appearance;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gibeon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Night;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Solomon;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Solomon;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for April 16;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him: “Ask. What should I give you?”
Hebrew Names Version
In that night did God appear to Shlomo, and said to him, Ask what I shall give you.
King James Version
In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
English Standard Version
In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, "Ask what I shall give you."
New Century Version
That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask for whatever you want me to give you."
New English Translation
That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Tell me what I should give you."
Amplified Bible
That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask what I shall give to you."
New American Standard Bible
In that night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask what I shall give you."
World English Bible
In that night did God appear to Solomon, and said to him, Ask what I shall give you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The same night did God appeare vnto Salomon, and sayde vnto him, Aske what I shall giue thee.
Legacy Standard Bible
In that night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask what I should give to you."
Berean Standard Bible
That night God appeared to Solomon and said, "Ask, and I will give it to you!"
Contemporary English Version
God appeared to Solomon that night in a dream and said, "Solomon, ask for anything you want, and I will give it to you."
Darby Translation
In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, Ask what I shall give thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
That night God came to Solomon and said, "Ask me for whatever you want me to give you."
George Lamsa Translation
That night the LORD appeared to Solomon in a vision and said to him, Ask what I shall give you.
Good News Translation
That night God appeared to Solomon and asked, "What would you like me to give you?"
Lexham English Bible
On that night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask what I shall give to you."
Literal Translation
In that night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, Ask what I shall give to you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
In the same nighte appeared God vnto Salomon, and sayde vnto him: Axe, what shal I geue the?
American Standard Version
In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
Bible in Basic English
In that night God came to Solomon in a vision, and said to him, Say what I am to give you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the same night did God appeare vnto Solomon, and said vnto him: Aske what I shall geue thee.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him: 'Ask what I shall give thee.'
King James Version (1611)
In that night did God appeare vnto Solomon, and saide vnto him; Aske what I shall giue thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, Ask what I shall give thee.
English Revised Version
In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lo! `forsothe in that nyyt God apperide to hym, `and seide, Axe that that thou wolt, that Y yyue to thee.
Update Bible Version
In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, Ask what I shall give you.
Webster's Bible Translation
In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, Ask what I shall give thee.
New King James Version
On that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, "Ask! What shall I give you?"
New Living Translation
That night God appeared to Solomon and said, "What do you want? Ask, and I will give it to you!"
New Life Bible
That night God showed Himself to Solomon and said to him, "Ask Me for anything and I will give it to you."
New Revised Standard
That night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, "Ask what I should give you."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
During that night, God appeared unto Solomon, - and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And behold that night God appeared to him, saying: Ask what thou wilt that I should give thee.
Revised Standard Version
In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, "Ask what I shall give you."
Young's Literal Translation
In that night hath God appeared to Solomon, and saith to him, `Ask -- what do I give to thee?'
THE MESSAGE
That night God appeared to Solomon. God said, "What do you want from me? Ask."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
In that night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask what I shall give you."

Contextual Overview

1 Shlomo the son of David grew stronger in his rulership; Adonai his God was with him, making him greater and greater. 2 Shlomo spoke to all Isra'el — to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges and to every leader in all Isra'el, the heads of clans. 3 Shlomo and the whole community with him went to the high place at Giv‘on, because in that place was God's tent of meeting, which Moshe the servant of Adonai had made in the desert. 4 But the ark of God David had brought up from Kiryat-Ye‘arim to the place he had prepared for it — he had set up a tent for it in Yerushalayim. 5 The bronze altar crafted by B'tzal'el the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had been placed before the tabernacle of Adonai ; and there Shlomo and the community consulted him. 6 On the bronze altar at the tent of meeting Shlomo offered a thousand burnt offerings before Adonai . 7 That night God appeared to Shlomo and said to him, "Tell me what I should give you." 8 Shlomo said to God, "You showed much grace to your servant David my father and have made me king in his place. 9 Now, Adonai , God, you have been faithful to your promise to David my father; for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the grains of dust on the earth. 10 So now, give me wisdom and knowledge; so that I will be able to lead this people. For who is equal to judging this great people of yours?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

In that night: This was the night following the sacrifice which Solomon had offered. 1 Kings 3:5-15, Proverbs 3:5, Proverbs 3:6

Ask: Matthew 7:7, Matthew 7:8, Mark 10:36, Mark 10:37, Mark 10:51, John 16:23, 1 John 5:14, 1 John 5:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:1 - appeared 1 Kings 3:4 - Gibeon 1 Kings 9:2 - as he 2 Chronicles 7:12 - the Lord Psalms 119:125 - give Matthew 6:33 - seek 1 Corinthians 4:7 - and what

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
and God called the dome Sky. So there was evening, and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1:9
God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let dry land appear," and that is how it was.
Genesis 1:11
God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, seed-producing plants, and fruit trees, each yielding its own kind of seed-bearing fruit, on the earth"; and that is how it was.
Genesis 1:15
and let them be for lights in the dome of the sky to give light to the earth"; and that is how it was.
Genesis 1:24
(A: iii) God said, "Let the earth bring forth each kind of living creature — each kind of livestock, crawling animal and wild beast"; and that is how it was.
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them: God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air and every living creature that crawls on the earth."
Genesis 1:29
Then God said, "Here! Throughout the whole earth I am giving you as food every seed-bearing plant and every tree with seed-bearing fruit.
Job 26:8
He binds up the water in his thick clouds, yet no cloud is torn apart by it.
Psalms 104:10
You make springs gush forth in the vadis; they flow between the hills,
Psalms 148:4
Praise him, highest heaven, and waters above the heavens!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In that night did God appear unto Solomon,.... From hence to the end of 2 Chronicles 1:12 it is the same with 1 Kings 3:5.

1 Kings 3:5- : 1 Kings 3:5- : 1 Kings 3:5- : 1 Kings 3:5- : 1 Kings 3:5- : 1 Kings 3:5- : 1 Kings 3:5- : 1 Kings 3:5- : 1 Kings 3:5- : 1 Kings 3:5- : 1 Kings 3:5- :

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The verbal differences between this passage and the corresponding one of Kings 1 Kings 3:5-14 are very considerable, and indicate the general truth that the object of the sacred historians is to give a true account of the real bearing of what was said: not ordinarily to furnish us with all or the exact words that were uttered. The most important point omitted in Chronicles, and supplied by Kings, is the conditional promise of long life made to Solomon 1 Kings 3:14; while the chief point absent from Kings, and recorded by our author, is the solemn appeal made by Solomon to the promise of God to David his father 2 Chronicles 1:9, which he now called upon God to “establish,” or to perform.

2 Chronicles 1:12

I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honor - Remark that the writer says nothing of any promise to Solomon of “long life,” which, however, had been mentioned in 2 Chronicles 1:11 among the blessings which he might have been expected to ask. The reason for the omission would seem to lie in the writer’s desire to record only what is good of this great king. Long life was included in the promises made to him; but it was granted conditionally; and Solomon not fulfilling the conditions, it did not take effect (1 Kings 3:14 note).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 1:7. In that night — The night following the sacrifice. On Solomon's choice, see the notes on 1 Kings 3:5-15.


 
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