2 Chronicles 1:8
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New International Version (©2011)
Solomon answered God, "You have shown great kindness to David my father and have made me king in his place.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Solomon replied to God, "You showed faithful love to David, my father, and now you have made me king in his place.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And Solomon said to God, “You have shown great and steadfast love to David my father, and have made me king in his place.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Solomon said to God, "You have dealt with my father David with great lovingkindness, and have made me king in his place.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
And Solomon said to God: "You have shown great and faithful love to my father David, and You have made me king in his place.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Solomon replied to God, "You showed great gracious love to my father David, and have established me as king in his place.

NET Bible (©2006)
Solomon replied to God, "You demonstrated great loyalty to my father David and have made me king in his place.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Solomon responded to God, "You've shown great love to my father David, and you've made me king in his place.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Solomon said unto God, You have shown great mercy unto David my father, and have made me to reign in his stead.

American King James Version
And Solomon said to God, You have showed great mercy to David my father, and have made me to reign in his stead.

American Standard Version
And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast showed great lovingkindness unto David my father, and hast made me king in his stead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Solomon said to God: Thou hast shewn great kindness to my father David: and hast made me king in his stead.

Darby Bible Translation
And Solomon said to God, Thou hast shewn unto David my father great loving-kindness, and hast made me king in his stead.

English Revised Version
And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great kindness unto David my father, and hast made me king in his stead.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Solomon said to God, Thou hast shown great mercy to David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.

World English Bible
Solomon said to God, "You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place.

Young's Literal Translation
And Solomon saith to God, 'Thou hast done with David my father great kindness, and hast caused me to reign in his stead.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:1-17 Solomon's choice of wisdom, His strength and wealth. - SOLOMON began his reign with a pious, public visit to God's altar. Those that pursue present things most eagerly, are likely to be disappointed; while those that refer themselves to the providence of God, if they have not the most, have the most comfort. Those that make this world their end, come short of the other, and are disappointed in this also; but those that make the other world their end, shall not only obtain that, and full satisfaction in it, but shall have as much of this world as is good for them, in their way. Let us then be contented, without those great things which men generally covet, but which commonly prove fatal snares to the soul.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 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").

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Solomon Prays for Wisdom
7In that night did God appear to Solomon, and said to him, Ask what I shall give you. 8And Solomon said to God, You have showed great mercy to David my father, and have made me to reign in his stead. 9Now, O LORD God, let your promise to David my father be established: for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. …

1 Kings 3:6 Solomon answered, "You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day.
1 Chronicles 28:5 Of all my sons--and the LORD has given me many--he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.