I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
1 Kings 3:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 And your servant is in the midst of the people whom you have chosen, a great people so numerous they cannot be numbered or counted. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people who cannot be counted for multitude. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible But I’m here, your servant, in the middle of the people you have chosen, a large population that can’t be numbered or counted due to its vast size. Catholic Public Domain Version And your servant is in the midst of the people that you have chosen, an immense people, who are not able to be numbered or counted because of their multitude. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thy servant is in the midst of the people which thou hast chosen, an immense people, which cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. |
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies,
Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea; they ate and drank and were happy.
So David said to Joab and the commanders of the army, “Go, number Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, and bring me a report, so that I may know their number.”
from tending the nursing ewes he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel, his inheritance.
I will look with favor upon you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will maintain my covenant with you.
For the Lord will not cast away his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.