2 Chronicles 1:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ O Lord God, let your promise to my father David now be fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Now, O Lord God, let Your promise to David my father be fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Now, O Jehovah God, let thy promise unto David my father be established; for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

Common English Bible

⁹ Now, LORD God, let your promise to my father David be fulfilled because you have made me king over a people as numerous as the earth’s dust.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Now therefore, O Lord God, let your word be fulfilled, which you promised to my father David. For you have made me king over your great people, who are as innumerable as the dust of the earth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Now therefore, O Lord God, let thy word be fulfilled, which thou hast promised to David my father: for thou hast made me king over thy great people, which is as innumerable as the dust of the earth.

2 Chronicles 1:9 Cross References

Genesis 13:16

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.

Genesis 22:17

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,

Genesis 28:14

and your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your offspring.

1 Chronicles 28:5

And of all my sons, for the Lord has given me many, he has chosen my son Solomon to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

Numbers 23:10

Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the dust cloud of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!”

Matthew 25:16

the one who had received the five talents went off and traded with them and made five more talents.