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2 Chronicles 1:8
2 Chronicles 1:8 is verse 8 of 2 Chronicles chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Solomon replied to God: “You have shown much loving devotion to my father David, and You have made me king in his place.
Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant.
King James Version
And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.
World English Bible
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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2 Chronicles 1:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 Solomon offered sacrifices there before the LORD on the bronze altar in the Tent of Meeting, where he offered a thousand burnt offerings.
7 That night God appeared to Solomon and said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
8 Solomon replied to God: “You have shown much loving devotion to my father David, and You have made me king in his place.
9 Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to my father David be fulfilled. For You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
10 Now grant me wisdom and knowledge, so that I may lead this people. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?”
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Cross-references
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2 Samuel 7:8Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.
2 Samuel 7:9I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like the greatest in the land.
2 Samuel 12:7Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
2 Samuel 12:8I gave your master’s house to you and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah, and if that was not enough, I would have given you even more.
2 Samuel 22:51Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”
2 Samuel 23:1These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man raised on high, the one anointed by the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel:
Psalms 86:13For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
Psalms 89:20I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him.
Psalms 89:21My hand will sustain him; surely My arm will strengthen him.
Psalms 89:22No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.
Psalms 89:23I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.
Psalms 89:24My faithfulness and loving devotion will be with him, and through My name his horn will be exalted.
Psalms 89:25I will set his hand over the sea, and his right hand upon the rivers.
Psalms 89:26He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
Psalms 89:27I will indeed appoint him as My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
Psalms 89:28I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
Psalms 89:49Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?
Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.
1 Chronicles 28:5And of all my sons—for the LORD has given me many sons—He has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
1 Chronicles 29:23So Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king in place of his father David. He prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.