1 Chronicles 16:19 - Revised Standard Version When they were few in number, and of little account, and sojourners in it, Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 When ye were but few, Even a few, and strangers in it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When they were but few, even a very few, and only temporary residents and strangers in it, American Standard Version (1901) When ye were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it; Common English Bible When they were few in number— insignificant, just immigrants— Catholic Public Domain Version At that time, they were small in number, they were few and were settlers there. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version When they were but a small number: very few and sojourners in it. |
Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”
wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him in possession and to his posterity after him, though he had no child.
It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love upon you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples;
These all died in faith, not having received what was promised, but having seen it and greeted it from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.