1 Kings 3:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.”
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“Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and Thy servant <FI>is<Fi> in the midst of thy people, whom Thou hast chosen, a people numerous, that is not numbered nor counted for multitude,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Kings 3:8 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 13:16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
- Genesis 15:5And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
- Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
- Exodus 19:5Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
- Leviticus 26:9I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.
- Deuteronomy 7:6For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
- 1 Samuel 12:22Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.
- 1 Kings 4:20The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.
- 1 Chronicles 21:2So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan and bring me a report, so that I may know their number.”
- 1 Chronicles 21:5And Joab reported to David the total number of the troops. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword, including 470,000 in Judah.
- 1 Chronicles 27:23David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.
- Psalms 78:71from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.
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