1 Kings 3:6

Contextual Overview

⁵ At Giv‘on Adonai appeared to Shlomo in a dream at night; God said, "Tell me what I should give you." ⁵ In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. ⁵ While Solomon was at Gibeon, the Lord came to him at night in a dream. God said, "Solomon, ask me what you want me to give you." ⁵ In Giv`on the LORD appeared to Shlomo in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give you. ⁵ In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said: 'Ask what I shall give thee.' ⁵ In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. ⁵ In Gibeon, Solomon had a vision of the Lord in a dream by night; and God said to him, Say what I am to give you. ⁵ And in Gibeon the Lorde appeared to Solomon in a dreame by night, and God sayd: Aske what thou wilt, that I may geue it thee. ⁵ In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Salomon in a dreame by night: and God sayd, Aske what I shal giue thee. ⁵ Then the LORD appeared to Solomon in a vision by night; and God said to him, Ask that which I should give you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

thy servant Numbers 12:7; 2 Samuel 7:5

great

2 Samuel 7:8-12; 12:7,8; 22:47-51; 1 Chronicles 29:12-14; Psalms 78:70-72

mercy

or, bounty.

Psalms 13:6; 116:7; 119:17; 2 Corinthians 9:5,11

according

2:4; 9:4; 15:5; 2 Kings 20:3; Psalms 15:2; 18:20-24

that

1:48

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:9 - and Noah;  Genesis 17:1 - walk;  Genesis 48:15 - did walk;  1 Kings 2:24 - set me;  1 Kings 3:3 - walking;  1 Kings 8:23 - walk before;  2 Kings 22:2 - walked;  1 Chronicles 4:18 - Bithiah;  1 Chronicles 28:9 - the God;  2 Chronicles 6:10 - I am risen;  2 Chronicles 6:14 - walk before;  Psalm 78:72 - guided;  Proverbs 14:2 - that walketh;  Proverbs 15:14 - heart;  Ecclesiastes 7:11 - good with an inheritance;  Ecclesiastes 12:1 - Remember;  Jeremiah 4:2 - in truth;  Matthew 20:2 - he sent;  3 John 1:4 - walk

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
And the serpent was more crafty than any animal of the field which Jehovah Elohim had made. And it said to the woman, Is it even so, that God has said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Genesis 3:1
The snake was the most clever of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. The snake spoke to the woman and said, "Woman, did God really tell you that you must not eat from any tree in the garden?"

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman: 'Yea, hath God said: Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'

Genesis 3:1
Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?

Genesis 3:1
And the serpent was suttiller then euery beast of the fielde which ye lord God hadde made, and he sayde vnto the woman: yea, hath God saide, ye shall not eate of euery tree of the garden?

Genesis 3:1
Nowe the serpent was more subtill then any beast of the fielde, which the Lord God had made: and he said to the woman, Yea, hath God in deede said, Ye shall not eate of euery tree of the garden?

Genesis 3:1
NOW the serpent was more subtle than all the wild beasts that the LORD God had made. And the serpent said to the woman, Truly has God said that you shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

Genesis 3:1
Now the snake was the most cunning animal that the Lord God had made. The snake asked the woman, "Did God really tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?"

Genesis 3:1
And the two were naked, both Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Solomon said,.... In his dream; not that he dreamt he said, when he did not; but he really said, as follows:

thou hast showed unto thy servant David my father great mercy; bestowed many favours and blessings upon him, both temporal and spiritual:

according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; in the truth of doctrine and worship, according to the revealed will and word of God, and which he observed with great strictness, living soberly, righteously, and godly, though not without failings and imperfections, yet with great integrity and sincerity; and this holy walk of his was not the cause of God's showing mercy to him, nor was it in proportion to that, but what he was influenced to by the mercy that was shown him:

and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day; a son to be his successor, meaning himself; which was an additional favour to all the rest, and was in reserve, and now bestowed, as time had made to appear.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This great kindness - David himself had regarded this as God‘s crowning mercy to him 1 Kings 1:48.