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the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Green's Literal Translation

1 Kings 9:2

that Jehovah appeared to Solomon a second time, as He appeared to him in Gibeon.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gibeon;   God;   Government;   Prayer;   Solomon;   Thompson Chain Reference - Appearances;   Divine;   God;   The Topic Concordance - Jerusalem;   Name;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Appear, Appearance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gibeon;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Alliance;   Israel;   Solomon;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Dream;   Gibeon;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gibeon;   Kings, Books of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time just as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
Hebrew Names Version
that the LORD appeared to Shlomo the second time, as he had appeared to him at Giv`on.
King James Version
That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
English Standard Version
the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
New Century Version
Then the Lord appeared to him again just as he had done before, in Gibeon.
New English Translation
the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, in the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
Amplified Bible
that the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, just as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
New American Standard Bible
that the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the Lorde appeared vnto Salomon the second time, as he appeared vnto him at Gibeon.
Legacy Standard Bible
that Yahweh appeared to Solomon a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
Contemporary English Version
Some time later the Lord appeared to him again in a dream, just as he had done at Gibeon.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai appeared to Shlomo a second time, as he had appeared to him in Giv‘on.
Darby Translation
that Jehovah appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Lord appeared to Solomon again, just as he did at Gibeon.
George Lamsa Translation
Then the LORD appeared to him the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
Good News Translation
the Lord appeared to him again, as he had in Gibeon.
Lexham English Bible
Yahweh appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him in Gibeon.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
ye LORDE appeared vnto him the seconde tyme, euen as he appeared vnto him at Gibeon.
American Standard Version
that Jehovah appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
Bible in Basic English
The Lord came to him again in a vision, as he had done at Gibeon;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Lorde appeared to Solomon the second time, as he appeared vnto him at Gibeon.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
that the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as He had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
King James Version (1611)
That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as hee had appeared vnto him at Gibeon.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
that the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he appeared in Gabaon.
English Revised Version
that the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
Berean Standard Bible
the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the Lord apperide to Salomon the secunde tyme, as he apperide to hym in Gabaon.
Young's Literal Translation
that Jehovah appeareth unto Solomon a second time, as He appeared unto him in Gibeon,
Update Bible Version
that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
Webster's Bible Translation
That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
World English Bible
that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
New King James Version
that the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
New Living Translation
Then the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had done before at Gibeon.
New Life Bible
Then the Lord came to Solomon a second time, as He had come to him at Gibeon.
New Revised Standard
the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
then appeared Yahweh unto Solomon, a second time, - as he appeared unto him, in Gibeon.
Douay-Rheims Bible
That the Lord appeared to him the second time, as he had appeared to him in Gabaon.
Revised Standard Version
the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
that the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.

Contextual Overview

1 And it happened, as Solomon finished building the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king, and all the desire of Solomon that he delighted to do, 2 that Jehovah appeared to Solomon a second time, as He appeared to him in Gibeon. 3 And Jehovah said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication with which you have made supplication before Me; I have sanctified this house that you have built to put My name there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be thereforever. 4 And you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, in singleness of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you; you shall keep My statutes and My judgments; 5 then I shall lift up the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I spoke to your father David, saying, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel. 6 If you at all turn back, you and your sons, from following me, and do not keep My commands, My statutes which I have set before you, and you shall go and serve other gods and bow yourselves to them, 7 then I shall cut off Israel from the face of the land that I have given to them, and the house that I have hallowed for My name I shall send away from My face, and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 8 As to this house, which is high, everyone passing by it shall be astonished and shall hiss, and they shall say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house? 9 And they shall say, Because they have forsaken Jehovah their God, who brought their fathers out from the land of Egypt, and they laid hold on other gods and bowed themselves to them and served them. On account of this Jehovah has brought inupon them all this evil.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as he: 1 Kings 3:5, 1 Kings 11:9, 2 Chronicles 1:7-12, 2 Chronicles 7:12

Reciprocal: Joshua 18:25 - Gibeon 1 Kings 3:4 - Gibeon

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the seas, and over birds of the heavens, and over all beasts creeping on the earth.
Genesis 2:19
And Jehovah God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the heavens out of the ground. And He brought them to the man, to see what he would call it. And all which the man might call it, each living soul, that was its name.
Genesis 9:4
But you shall not eat flesh in its life, its blood.
Genesis 9:8
And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
Genesis 9:20
And Noah, a man of the ground, began and planted a vineyard.
Genesis 9:22
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father. And he told his two brothers outside.
Genesis 9:23
And Shem and Japheth took a garment and put it on both their shoulders. And they went backward and covered the nakedness of their father, their faces backward. And they did not see the nakedness of their father.
Genesis 35:5
And they pulled up stakes . And the terror of God was on the cities all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
Leviticus 26:6
And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall terrify you. And I shall cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, and the sword shall not pass over into your land.
Leviticus 26:22
and send against you the beast of the field, and it shall bereave you. And I shall cut off your livestock and shall make you few, so that your ways are desolate.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time,.... Junius and Tremellius read this verse with the following, to the end of the ninth, in a parenthesis, and render this clause, "for the Lord had appeared", c. and Piscator translates it, "moreover the Lord appeared", c. as beginning a distinct narrative from the former and indeed if the words are to be connected with the preceding, as in our version, this appearance must be thirteen years after the building of the temple, which is not probable but rather it was the night after the dedication of it, when an answer was returned to Solomon's prayer in the preceding chapter; for that it should be deferred twelve or thirteen years is not reasonable to suppose; and this appearance was the second of the kind and manner:

as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon; in a dream and a vision, and by night, 1 Kings 3:5, see 2 Chronicles 7:12.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This appearance is fixed by 1 Kings 9:1 to Solomon’s twenty-fourth year, the year in which he completed his palace 1 Kings 6:37-38; 1 Kings 7:1. The fact seems to be that, though the temple was finished in Solomon’s eleventh year, the dedication did not take place until his twenty-fourth year. The order of the narrative in Kings agrees with this view, since it interposes the account of the building of the palace 1 Kings 7:1-12, and of the making of the furniture 1 Kings 7:13-51, between the completion of the building of the temple 1 Kings 6:38 and the ceremony of the Dedication 1 Kings 8:0.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 9:2. The Lord appeared to Solomon — The design of this appearance, which was in a dream, as that was at Gibeon, was to assure Solomon that God had accepted his service, and had taken that house for his dwelling-place, and would continue it, and establish him and his descendants upon the throne of Israel for ever, provided they served him with an upright heart; but, on the contrary, if they forsook him, he would abandon both them and his temple.


 
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