2That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
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In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.
And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)God had given a real answer to Solomon’s prayer, and tokens of his acceptance of it, immediately, by the fire from heaven which consumed the sacrifices (as we find 2 Chron. 7:1); but here we have a more express and distinct answer to it. Observe, I. In what way God gave him this answer. He appeared to him, as he had done at Gibeon, in the beginning of his reign, in a dream or vision, 1 Kgs. 9:2. T…
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