﻿2 Chronicles.
Chapter 1.
Solomon son of David established himself firmly in his kingdom. The LORD his God was with him and made him exceedingly great. 
Solomon spoke to all Israel—to the commanders of thousands and hundreds, to the judges, and to every leader in all Israel, the heads of the ancestral families. 
Then Solomon and the whole assembly with him went to the high place at Gibeon, for God's tent of meeting was there, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness. 
But David had brought the ark of God up from Kiriath-jearim to the place he had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem. 
The bronze altar that Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, had made had been placed before the tabernacle of the LORD. Solomon and the assembly sought him there. 
Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the LORD at the tent of meeting and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it. 
That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask what I should give you.” 
Solomon said to God, “You have shown great faithful love to my father David and have made me king in his place. 
Now, LORD God, let your promise to my father David be confirmed, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth. 
Now give me wisdom and knowledge, so I may go out and come in before this people. For who can govern this great people of yours?” 
God said to Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked for riches, possessions, or honor, or for the lives of those who hate you, nor have you asked for a long life, but have asked for wisdom and knowledge to govern my people, over whom I have made you king, 
wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor such as no king before you has had, and none after you will have.” 
Then Solomon came to Jerusalem from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, and he reigned over Israel. 
Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. He had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen. He stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. 
The king made silver and gold as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as plentiful as sycamore trees in the lowlands. 
Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and Kue. The king's merchants bought them in Kue at a price. 
They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. Through them these were also exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram. 
