2 Then Solomon spoke unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every prince in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.
3 So Solomon and all the congregation with him went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for there was the tabernacle of the testimony of God, which Moses the slave of the Lord had made in the wilderness.
4 But David had brought the ark of God up from Kirjathjearim to the place which David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
5 Moreover, the brasen altar that Bezaleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was there before the tabernacle of the Lord; and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.
6 And Solomon went up there to the brasen altar before the Lord, which was at the tabernacle of the testimony, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.
7 And that night God appeared unto Solomon and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
8 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast showed great mercy unto David, my father, and hast placed me as king in his stead.