That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
That (rather for) the Lord appeared. This appearance was, like the former one at Gibeon, most probably made in a supernatural vision, and on the night immediately following the dedication of the temple (2 Chronicles 7:12). The strain of it corresponds to this view, because it consists of direct answers to his solemn inaugural prayer: 1 Kings 9:3 is an answer to 1 Kings 8:29; 1 Kings 9:4-5, are an answer to 1 Kings 8:25-26; 1 Kings 9:6-9, to 1 Kings 8:33-46 (see also Deuteronomy 29:22-24)