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1 Kings 9:2

That the Lord appeared to him the second time, as he had appeared to him in Gabaon.

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.
Literal Translation
that Jehovah appeared to Solomon a second time, as He 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.
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 came to pass when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all that he desired and was pleased to do, 2 That the Lord appeared to him the second time, as he had appeared to him in Gabaon. 3 And the Lord said to him: I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, which thou hast made before me: I have sanctified this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and my eyes, and my heart, shall be there always. 4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as thy father walked, in simplicity of heart, and in uprightness: and wilt do all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my ordinances, and my judgments, 5 I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever, as I promised David, thy father, saying: There shall not fail a man of thy race upon the throne of Israel. 6 But if you and your children, revolting, shall turn away from following me, and will not keep my commandments, and my ceremonies, which I have set before you, but will go and worship strange gods, and adore them: 7 I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword among all people. 8 And this house shall be made an example of: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house? 9 And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and followed strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon 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, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.
Genesis 2:19
And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name.
Genesis 9:4
Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.
Genesis 9:8
Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him:
Genesis 9:20
And Noe a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard.
Genesis 9:22
Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father’s nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.
Genesis 9:23
But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
Genesis 35:5
And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away.
Leviticus 26:6
I will give peace in your coasts: you shall sleep, and there shall be none to make you afraid. I will take away evil beasts: and the sword shall not pass through your quarters.
Leviticus 26:22
And I will send in upon you the beasts of the field, to destroy you and your cattle, and make you few in number: and that your highways may be 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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