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1 Kings 3:4-6
New English Translation
1 Kings 3:4-6
New English Translation
4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places.[a] Solomon would offer up[b] 1,000 burnt sacrifices on the altar there. 5 One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared[c] to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell[d] me what I should give you.” 6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated[e] great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served[f] you faithfully, properly, and sincerely.[g] You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne.[h]
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- 1 Kings 3:4 tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”
- 1 Kings 3:4 tn Or, “customarily offered up.” The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 §107.b.
- 1 Kings 3:5 tn Or “revealed himself.”
- 1 Kings 3:5 tn Heb “ask.”
- 1 Kings 3:6 tn Heb “did.”
- 1 Kings 3:6 tn Heb “walked before.”
- 1 Kings 3:6 tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”
- 1 Kings 3:6 tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”
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