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New Century Version

2 Chronicles 1:7

That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask for whatever you want me to 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 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."
Complete Jewish Bible
That night God appeared to Shlomo and said to him, "Tell me what I should give 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 Solomon, David's son, became a powerful king, because the Lord his God was with him and made him very great. 2 Solomon spoke to all the people of Israel—the commanders of a hundred men and of a thousand men, the judges, every leader in all Israel, and the leaders of the families. 3 Then Solomon and all the people with him went to the place of worship at the town of Gibeon. God's Meeting Tent, which Moses the Lord 's servant had made in the desert, was there. 4 David had brought the Ark of God from Kiriath Jearim to Jerusalem, where he had made a place for it and had set up a tent for it. 5 The bronze altar that Bezalel son of Uri, who was the son of Hur, had made was in Gibeon in front of the Holy Tent. So Solomon and the people worshiped there. 6 Solomon went up to the bronze altar in the presence of the Lord at the Meeting Tent and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it. 7 That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask for whatever you want me to give you." 8 Solomon answered, "You have been very kind to my father David, and you have made me king in his place. 9 Now, Lord God, may your promise to my father David come true. You have made me king of a people who are as many as the dust of the earth. 10 Now give me wisdom and knowledge so I can lead these people in the right way, because no one can rule them without your help."

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
God named the air "sky." Evening passed, and morning came. This was the second day.
Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered together so the dry land will appear." And it happened.
Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the earth produce plants—some to make grain for seeds and others to make fruits with seeds in them. Every seed will produce more of its own kind of plant." And it happened.
Genesis 1:15
They will be in the sky to give light to the earth." And it happened.
Genesis 1:24
Then God said, "Let the earth be filled with animals, each producing more of its own kind. Let there be tame animals and small crawling animals and wild animals, and let each produce more of its kind." And it happened.
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said, "Have many children and grow in number. Fill the earth and be its master. Rule over the fish in the sea and over the birds in the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 1:29
God said, "Look, I have given you all the plants that have grain for seeds and all the trees whose fruits have seeds in them. They will be food for you.
Job 26:8
He wraps up the waters in his thick clouds, but the clouds do not break under their weight.
Psalms 104:10
You make springs pour into the ravines; they flow between the mountains.
Psalms 148:4
Praise him, highest heavens and you waters above the sky.

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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