2 Chronicles 1:7-12 In that night did God appear to Solomon, and said to him, Ask what I shall give you.… The following words are from a letter written by Miss. Willard's mother to her children when they were quite small: "The dearest wish of my heart, except that my children shall be Christians, is that they shall be well-educated. A good education will open the world to you as a knife opens an oyster. Riches will not do this, because riches have no power to brighten the intellect. An ox and a philosopher look out on the same world, and perhaps the ox has the stronger and handsomer eyes of the two, but the difference between the brains behind the eyes makes a difference between the two beings that is wider than all the seas. I want my children's brains to be full of the best thoughts that great minds have had in all centuries; I want stored away in your little heads the story of what the world was doing before you came — who were its poets, its painters and philosophers, its inventors and law-givers. I want you to know what is in its noblest books, and what its men of science say about their study of the earth, the ocean, and the stars. I want you taught to be careful, and exact by your knowledge of figures; and, most of all, I want you to learn how to speak and write your own noble English tongue, for without the power of expression you are like an aeolian harp when there is no breeze." Parallel Verses KJV: In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.WEB: In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, "Ask what I shall give you." |
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