That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
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Gill's Exposition
That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time,.... Junius and Tremellius read this verse with the following, to the end of the ninth, in a parenthesis, and render this clause, "for the Lord had…
Barnes' Notes
This appearance is fixed by 1Ki 9:1 to Solomon’s twenty-fourth year, the year in which he completed his palace 1Ki 6:37-38; 1Ki 7:1. The fact seems to be that, though the temple was finished in…
Adam Clarke
The Lord appeared to Solomon - The design of this appearance, which was in a dream, as that was at Gibeon, was to assure Solomon that God had accepted his service, and had taken that house for his…
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 Ch2 7:1); but here we have a more…
Cambridge Bible
the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time In 2 Chron. we are told that this was -by night," therefore in a vision. Josephus says -a vision appearing to the king in his sleep shewed him that God had…
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