1 Kings 3:8

New International Version

Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number.

Cross References

Genesis 13:16

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.

Genesis 15:5

He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”

Genesis 22:17

I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,

1 Kings 4:20

The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore; they ate, they drank and they were happy.

1 Chronicles 21:2

So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan. Then report back to me so that I may know how many there are.”

Psalm 78:71

from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance.

Leviticus 26:9

“ ‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.

1 Samuel 12:22

For the sake of his great name the Lord will not reject his people, because the Lord was pleased to make you his own.