1 Chronicles 16:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁹ When ye were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and sojourners in it;

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ When ye were but few, Even a few, and strangers in it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ When they were but few, even a very few, and only temporary residents and strangers in it,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ When ye were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it;

Common English Bible

¹⁹ When they were few in number— insignificant, just immigrants—

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ At that time, they were small in number, they were few and were settlers there.

1 Chronicles 16:19 Cross References

Genesis 34:30

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

Deuteronomy 7:7

The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples:

Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Acts 7:5

and he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: and he promised that he would give it to him in possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

1 Chronicles 16:20

And they went about from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.