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That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask for whatever you want me to give to you.”

Solomon said to God, “You have shown great mercy and faithfulness[a] to my father David, and you have made me king in his place. Now, Lord God, let your commitment to David my father be fully realized, because you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 1:8 The Hebrew word chesed has connotations of both mercy and faithfulness, so the translation here includes bothconcepts.