1 Kings 3:6

Contextual Overview

⁵At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night. God said, “Ask. What should I give you?” ⁵ In Giv`on the LORD appeared to Shlomo in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give you. ⁵ In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. ⁵ At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, "Ask what I shall give you." ⁵ While he was at Gibeon, the Lord appeared to him in a dream during the night. God said, "Ask for whatever you want me to give you." ⁵ One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream. God said, "Tell me what I should give you." ⁵In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; and God said, "Ask [Me] what I shall give you." ⁵ In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; and God said, "Ask what you wish Me to give you." ⁵ In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Salomon in a dreame by night: and God sayd, Aske what I shal giue thee. ⁵In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; and God said, "Ask what I should give to you."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy servant: Numbers 12:7, 2 Samuel 7:5

great: 2 Samuel 7:8-12, 2 Samuel 12:7, 2 Samuel 12:8, 2 Samuel 22:47-51, 1 Chronicles 29:12-14, Psalms 78:70-72

mercy: or, bounty, Psalms 13:6, Psalms 116:7, Psalms 119:17, 2 Corinthians 9:5, 2 Corinthians 9:11

according: 1 Kings 2:4, 1 Kings 9:4, 1 Kings 15:5, 2 Kings 20:3, Psalms 15:2, Psalms 18:20-24

that: 1 Kings 1:48

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:9 - and Noah Genesis 17:1 - walk Genesis 48:15 - did walk 1 Kings 2:24 - set me 1 Kings 3:3 - walking 1 Kings 8:23 - walk before 2 Kings 22:2 - walked 1 Chronicles 4:18 - Bithiah 1 Chronicles 28:9 - the God 2 Chronicles 6:10 - I am risen 2 Chronicles 6:14 - walk before Psalms 78:72 - guided Proverbs 14:2 - that walketh Proverbs 15:14 - heart Ecclesiastes 7:11 - good with an inheritance Ecclesiastes 12:1 - Remember Jeremiah 4:2 - in truth Matthew 20:2 - he sent 3 John 1:4 - walk

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God indeed say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree in the garden'?"

Genesis 3:1
Now the snake was the most clever of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day the snake said to the woman, "Did God really say that you must not eat fruit from any tree in the garden?"

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Is it really true that God said, ‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard'?"

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty (subtle, skilled in deceit) than any living creature of the field which the LORD God had made. And the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, "Can it really be that God has said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more cunning than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"

Genesis 3:1
Nowe the serpent was more subtill then any beast of the fielde, which the Lord God had made: and he said to the woman, Yea, hath God in deede said, Ye shall not eate of euery tree of the garden?

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which Yahweh God had made. And he said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"

Genesis 3:1
The snake was sneakier than any of the other wild animals that the Lord God had made. One day it came to the woman and asked, "Did God tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Solomon said,.... In his dream; not that he dreamt he said, when he did not; but he really said, as follows:

thou hast showed unto thy servant David my father great mercy; bestowed many favours and blessings upon him, both temporal and spiritual:

according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; in the truth of doctrine and worship, according to the revealed will and word of God, and which he observed with great strictness, living soberly, righteously, and godly, though not without failings and imperfections, yet with great integrity and sincerity; and this holy walk of his was not the cause of God's showing mercy to him, nor was it in proportion to that, but what he was influenced to by the mercy that was shown him:

and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as [it is] this day; a son to be his successor, meaning himself; which was an additional favour to all the rest, and was in reserve, and now bestowed, as time had made to appear.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This great kindness - David himself had regarded this as God’s crowning mercy to him 1 Kings 1:48.