📖WEB · 1 Kings 9:2

What does 1 Kings 9:2 mean?

"Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon."

— 1 Kings 9:2 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

1

When Solomon had finished the building of Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,

2

Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

3

Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

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As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

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then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’

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