1 Kings 3:8

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.

And thy servant {H5650} is in the midst {H8432} of thy people {H5971} which thou hast chosen {H977}, a great {H7227} people {H5971}, that cannot be numbered {H4487} nor counted {H5608} for multitude {H7230}.

Moreover your servant is among your people, whom you chose, a great people so numerous that they cannot be counted.

Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.

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.

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Cross-References

  • Genesis 15:5 (6 votes)

    And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

  • Genesis 22:17 (4 votes)

    That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

  • Genesis 13:16 (4 votes)

    And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy seed also be numbered.

  • 1 Chronicles 21:2 (4 votes)

    And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know [it].

  • 1 Chronicles 21:5 (3 votes)

    And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all [they of] Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah [was] four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

  • 1 Chronicles 21:6 (3 votes)

    But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

  • Deuteronomy 7:6 (3 votes)

    For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that [are] upon the face of the earth.