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And so Solomon sought it, with the entire assembly. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Solomon ascended to the bronze altar, before the tabernacle of the covenant of the Lord, and he offered upon it one thousand victims.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But behold, during that night God appeared to him, saying, “Request what you wish, so that I may give it to you.”<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Solomon said to God: “You have shown great mercy to my father David. And you have appointed me as king in his place. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now therefore, O Lord God, let your word be fulfilled, which you promised to my father David. For you have made me king over your great people, who are as innumerable as the dust of the earth. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Give to me wisdom and understanding, so that I may enter and depart before your people. For who is able worthily to judge this, your people, who are so great?” <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then God said to Solomon: “Since this is the choice that pleased your heart, and you did not request wealth and substance and glory, nor the lives of those who hate you, nor even many days of life, since instead you requested wisdom and knowledge so that you may be able to judge my people, over whom I have appointed you as king: <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. And I will give to you wealth and substance and glory, so that none of the kings either before you or after you will be similar to you.” <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Solomon went from the high place of Gibeon to Jerusalem, before the tabernacle of the covenant, and he reigned over Israel.<p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">Solomon’s Riches<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_kings/10.htm#26">1 Kings 10:26–29</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he gathered to himself chariots and horsemen. And they brought to him one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. And he caused them to be in the cities of the chariots, and with the king in Jerusalem. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the king offered silver and gold in Jerusalem as if they were stones, and cedar trees as if they were sycamores, which grow in the plains in a great multitude. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then horses were brought to him from Egypt and from Kue, by the negotiators of the king, who went and bought for a price: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>a four-horse chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty. A similar offer to purchase was made known among all the kingdoms of the Hittites, and among the kings of Syria.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_chronicles/29.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Chronicles 29"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Chronicles 29" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_chronicles/2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Chronicles 2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>