1Ki 3:5 Cross References

1 Kings 3:5

5: That night the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, "What do you want? Ask, and I will give it to you!"

Then the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had done before at Gibeon.

If you need wisdom--if you want to know what God wants you to do--ask him, and he will gladly tell you. He will not resent your asking.
But when you ask him, be sure that you really expect him to answer, for a doubtful mind is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

That night God appeared to Solomon in a dream and said, "What do you want? Ask, and I will give it to you!"
Solomon replied to God, "You have been so faithful and kind to my father, David, and now you have made me king in his place.
Now, LORD God, please keep your promise to David my father, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth!
Give me wisdom and knowledge to rule them properly, for who is able to govern this great nation of yours?"
God said to Solomon, "Because your greatest desire is to help your people, and you did not ask for personal wealth and honor or the death of your enemies or even a long life, but rather you asked for wisdom and knowledge to properly govern my people,

You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, because the work of the Son brings glory to the Father.
Yes, ask anything in my name, and I will do it!

And the LORD said to them, "Now listen to me! Even with prophets, I the LORD communicate by visions and dreams.

As he considered this, he fell asleep, and an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. "Joseph, son of David," the angel said, "do not be afraid to go ahead with your marriage to Mary. For the child within her has been conceived by the Holy Spirit.

The LORD was very angry with Solomon, for his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.

But Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking! Are you able to drink from the bitter cup of sorrow I am about to drink? Are you able to be baptized with the baptism of suffering I must be baptized with?"
"Oh yes," they said, "we are able!" And Jesus said, "You will indeed drink from my cup and be baptized with my baptism,
but I have no right to say who will sit on the thrones next to mine. God has prepared those places for the ones he has chosen."
When the ten other disciples discovered what James and John had asked, they were indignant.
So Jesus called them together and said, "You know that in this world kings are tyrants, and officials lord it over the people beneath them.

After the wise men were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up and flee to Egypt with the child and his mother," the angel said. "Stay there until I tell you to return, because Herod is going to try to kill the child."

As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from earth to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down on it.
At the top of the stairway stood the LORD, and he said, "I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I will give it to you and your descendants.

And we can be confident that he will listen to us whenever we ask him for anything in line with his will.
And if we know he is listening when we make our requests, we can be sure that he will give us what we ask for.

When Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and told him,

You didn't choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name.

But God speaks again and again, though people do not recognize it.
He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night when deep sleep falls on people as they lie in bed.

"Keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened.
For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is opened to everyone who knocks.

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