That night, God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask for what you want me to give you.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Chronicles 1:7 in context
2 Chronicles 1:4–10
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But David had brought God’s ark up from Kiriath Jearim to the place that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
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Moreover the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was there before the LORD’s tabernacle; and Solomon and the assembly were seeking counsel there.
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Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the LORD, which was at the Tent of Meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings on it.
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That night, God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask for what you want me to give you.”
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Solomon said to God, “You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place.
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Now, LORD God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
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Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”
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