2nd Chronicles Chapter 1 verse 8 Holy Bible
And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast showed great lovingkindness unto David my father, and hast made me king in his stead.
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And Solomon said to God, Great was your mercy to David my father, and you have made me king in his place.
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And Solomon said to God, Thou hast shewn unto David my father great loving-kindness, and hast made me king in his stead.
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And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast showed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.
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And Solomon said to God, Thou hast shown great mercy to David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.
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Solomon said to God, You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place.
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And Solomon saith to God, `Thou hast done with David my father great kindness, and hast caused me to reign in his stead.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - Thou hast showed great mercy unto David my father. These also are the exact words found in the parallel place, but they omit the words, "thy servant," before "David," found there. And hast made me to reign in his stead. This concise expression takes the place of two equivalent expressions, found at the end of the sixth and beginning of the seventh verses in the parallel passage, the former of which passages also describes it as "this great kindness," i.e. kindness on the part of God - a description very much in harmony with David's own grateful acknowledgment to God (1 Kings 1:48). Up to this point our present account differs from its parallel in cutting out Solomon's eulogy of his father ("According as he walked before thee in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with thee"), and his humbler disparagement of himself ("And I, a little child, know not how to go out or come in").
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David.--Literally, Thou, thou hast done great kindness with David. (The regular phrase; comp. Luke 1:72.) From this point the relation here is briefer on the whole than that of Kings. The greater part of the long verse (1Kings 3:6) is omitted, and the variations between the two texts become numerous, though the general sense is the same in each.And hast made me to reign in his stead.--Comp. 1Kings 3:7; and the similar language of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria (B.C. 681-668): "Ever since Asshur, Samas, Bel, Nebo . . . made me, Esarhaddon, sit securely on the throne of my father" (Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, 3:15, Colossians 2).
