2. Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers’ households.
3. So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for God’s Tent of Meeting was there, which the Lord’s servant Moses had made in the wilderness.
4. But David had brought God’s ark up from Kiriath Jearim to the place that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
5. Moreover the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was there before the Lord’s tabernacle; and Solomon and the assembly were seeking counsel there.
6. Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the Lord, which was at the Tent of Meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings on it.
7. That night, God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask for what you want me to give you.”
8. Solomon said to God, “You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place.