1 Kings 3:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ “And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ 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)

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.

Common English Bible

⁸ 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

⁸ 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.

1 Kings 3:8 Cross References

Genesis 13:16

“And I shall make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that, if a man could count the dust of the earth, then your seed also could be counted.

Genesis 15:5

And He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward the heavens, and count the stars if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So are your seed.”

Genesis 22:17

that I shall certainly bless you, and I shall certainly increase your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore, and let your seed possess the gate of their enemies.

1 Kings 4:20

Yehuḏ

1 Chronicles 21:2

And Dawiḏ

Psalm 78:71

He brought him in from tending the ewes, To shepherd Yaʽ

Leviticus 26:9

‘And I shall turn to you and make you bear fruit, and shall increase you, and shall establish My covenant with you.

1 Samuel 12:22

“For יהוה  would not cast away His people, for His great Name’s sake, seeing it has pleased יהוה  to make you His people.