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.

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 15:5

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.”

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,

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea; they ate and drank and were happy.

1 Chronicles 21:2

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.”

Psalm 78:71

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

Leviticus 26:9

I will look with favor upon you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will maintain my covenant with you.

1 Samuel 12:22

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.