# 2 Chronicles 1

> Lumin Translation

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Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Solomon son of David established himself firmly over his kingdom, and Yahweh his God was with him and made him exceedingly great.
2. Solomon spoke to all Israel: to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to every leader in all Israel, the heads of the ancestral houses.
3. Then Solomon and the whole assembly with him went to the high place at Gibeon, for God’s tent of meeting, which Moses the servant of Yahweh had made in the wilderness, was there.
4. But David had brought the ark of God up from Kiriath-jearim to the place David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.
5. The bronze altar that Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, had made had been placed before the tabernacle of Yahweh, and Solomon and the assembly sought him there.
6. Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before Yahweh at the tent of meeting and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it.
7. That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask what I should give you.”
8. Solomon said to God, “You have shown great steadfast love to David my father, and you have made me king in his place.
9. Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be confirmed, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
10. Now give me wisdom and knowledge, so that I may go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this great people of yours?”
11. God said to Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked for riches, wealth, or honor, or for the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked for long life, but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself so that you may govern my people, over whom I have made you king,
12. wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, wealth, and honor such as none of the kings before you has had, and none after you will have.”
13. So Solomon came to Jerusalem from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, and he reigned over Israel.
14. Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, and he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
15. The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore-fig trees in the lowland.
16. Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue; the king’s traders acquired them from Kue at the going price.
17. They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver and a horse for 150. In the same way they exported them through their agents to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

## Nearby chapters

[1 Chronicles 29](https://www.lumin.faith/read/1-chronicles/29.md)
[2 Chronicles 2](https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-chronicles/2.md)

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