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2 Chronicles 1:9

"Now, O LORD God, Your promise to my father David is fulfilled, for You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Communion;   God;   Solomon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Holy Land;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Elect, Election;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gibeon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nahum (2);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Wisdom of Solomon;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Dust;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Hyperbole;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Now, O Yahweh God, let Your promise to my father David endure, for You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now, O LORD God, Your promise to my father David is fulfilled, for You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Now therefore, O Lorde God, let thy promise which thou madest vnto Dauid my father, be true: For thou hast made me king ouer a people which is lyke the dust of the earth in multitude:
Darby Translation
Now, Jehovah Elohim, let thy word unto David my father be firm; for thou hast made me king over a people numerous as the dust of the earth.
New King James Version
Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to David my father be established, for You have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
Literal Translation
Now, O Jehovah God, Your Word with my father David is confirmed, for You have made me to reign over a people as many as the dust of the earth.
Easy-to-Read Version
Now, Lord God, continue to keep your promise to my father David. You made me king over so many people that they are like the dust of the earth.
World English Bible
Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
King James Version (1611)
Now, O Lord God, let thy promise vnto Dauid my father be established: for thou hast made mee King ouer a people, like the dust of the earth in multitude.
King James Version
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now LORDE God, let yi worde that thou hast promysed vnto my father Dauid, be verified, for thou hast made me kynge ouer a people, which is as many in nobre as the dust vpon the earth.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
Now, O Lord God, let your word to David my father come true; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in number.
Update Bible Version
Now, O Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
Webster's Bible Translation
Now, O LORD God, let thy promise to David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
New English Translation
Now, Lord God, may your promise to my father David be realized, for you have made me king over a great nation as numerous as the dust of the earth.
Contemporary English Version
I am supposed to rule these people, but there are as many of them as there are specks of dust on the ground. So keep the promise you made to my father
Complete Jewish Bible
Now, Adonai , God, you have been faithful to your promise to David my father; for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the grains of dust on the earth.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe therefore, O Lorde God, let thy promes vnto Dauid my father be true: for thou hast made mee King ouer a great people, like to the dust of the earth.
George Lamsa Translation
Now, O LORD my God, let thy promise to David my father be established; for thou hast made me king over this people, like the dust of the earth in multitude.
Hebrew Names Version
Now, LORD God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the eretz in multitude.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
New Living Translation
O Lord God, please continue to keep your promise to David my father, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth!
New Life Bible
Now, O Lord God, Your promise to my father David has come true. For You have made me king over as many people as the dust of the earth.
New Revised Standard
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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now, O Lord God, let, I pray thee, thy name be established upon David my father; for thou hast made me king over a people numerous as the dust of the earth.
English Revised Version
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.
Berean Standard Bible
Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to my father David be fulfilled. For You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, O Yahweh Elohim, let thy word with David my father be brought to pass,-for, thou, hast made me king over a people, for multitude like the dust of the earth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.
Lexham English Bible
Now, O Yahweh God, let your word to David my father be fulfilled, for you yourself have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
English Standard Version
O Lord God, let your word to David my father be now fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
New American Standard Bible
"Now, LORD God, Your promise to my father David is fulfilled, for You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
New Century Version
Now, Lord God, may your promise to my father David come true. You have made me king of a people who are as many as the dust of the earth.
Good News Translation
O Lord God, fulfill the promise you made to my father. You have made me king over a people who are so many that they cannot be counted,
Christian Standard Bible®
Lord God, let Your promise to my father David now come true. For You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Now therfor, Lord God, thi word be fillid, which thou bihiytist to Dauid, my fadir; for thou hast maad me kyng on thi greet puple, which is so vnnoumbrable as the dust of erthe.
Young's Literal Translation
Now, O Jehovah God, is Thy word with David my father stedfast, for Thou hast caused me to reign over a people numerous as the dust of the earth;
Revised Standard Version
O LORD God, let thy promise to David my father be now fulfilled, for thou hast made me king over a people as many as the dust of the earth.

Contextual Overview

1Solomon the son of David established himself securely over his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him and made him exceedingly great. 2Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every leader in all Israel, the heads of the fathers' (ancestors') households. 3Then Solomon and all the assembly went to the high place at Gibeon [to offer sacrifices, where the Canaanites had habitually worshiped], for God's Tent of Meeting was there, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness. 4But David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem. 5Now the bronze altar, which Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was there before the tabernacle of the LORD, and Solomon and the assembly sought it out. 6And Solomon went up to the bronze altar before the LORD at the Tent of Meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it. 7That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask what I shall give to you." 8Then Solomon said to God, "You have shown great lovingkindness and mercy to my father David, and have made me king in his place. 9"Now, O LORD God, Your promise to my father David is fulfilled, for You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.10"Give me wisdom and knowledge, so that I may go out and come in [performing my duties] before this people, for [otherwise] who can rule and administer justice to this great people of Yours?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

let thy promise: 2 Samuel 7:12-16, 2 Samuel 7:25-29, 1 Chronicles 17:11-14, 1 Chronicles 17:23-27, 1 Chronicles 28:6, 1 Chronicles 28:7, Psalms 89:35-37, Psalms 132:11, Psalms 132:12

for thou hast: 1 Kings 3:7, 1 Kings 3:8

like the dust: Heb. much as the dust, Genesis 13:16, Genesis 22:17, Numbers 23:10

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 13:5 - as the sand 1 Kings 2:24 - set me 1 Kings 8:26 - let thy word 2 Kings 2:9 - Elisha said 1 Chronicles 28:5 - to sit Matthew 25:16 - went

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:2
The earth was formless and void or a waste and emptiness, and darkness was upon the face of the deep [primeval ocean that covered the unformed earth]. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:5
And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Genesis 1:6
And God said, "Let there be an expanse [of the sky] in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters [below the expanse] from the waters [above the expanse]."
Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse [of sky] heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place [of standing, pooling together], and let the dry land appear"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:11
So God said, "Let the earth sprout [tender] vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit according to (limited to, consistent with) their kind, whose seed is in them upon the earth"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them [granting them certain authority] and said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subjugate it [putting it under your power]; and rule over (dominate) the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and every living thing that moves upon the earth."
Genesis 1:29
So God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of the entire earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
Job 26:7
"It is He who spreads out the north over emptiness And hangs the earth on nothing.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The verbal differences between this passage and the corresponding one of Kings 1 Kings 3:5-14 are very considerable, and indicate the general truth that the object of the sacred historians is to give a true account of the real bearing of what was said: not ordinarily to furnish us with all or the exact words that were uttered. The most important point omitted in Chronicles, and supplied by Kings, is the conditional promise of long life made to Solomon 1 Kings 3:14; while the chief point absent from Kings, and recorded by our author, is the solemn appeal made by Solomon to the promise of God to David his father 2 Chronicles 1:9, which he now called upon God to “establish,” or to perform.

2 Chronicles 1:12

I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honor - Remark that the writer says nothing of any promise to Solomon of “long life,” which, however, had been mentioned in 2 Chronicles 1:11 among the blessings which he might have been expected to ask. The reason for the omission would seem to lie in the writer’s desire to record only what is good of this great king. Long life was included in the promises made to him; but it was granted conditionally; and Solomon not fulfilling the conditions, it did not take effect (1 Kings 3:14 note).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 1:9. Let thy promise — דברך debarcha, thy word; פתגמך pithgamach, Targum. It is very remarkable that when either God or man is represented as having spoken a word then the noun פתגם pithgam is used by the Targumist; but when word is used personally, then he employs the noun מימרא meymera, which appears to answer to the Λογος of St. John, John 1:1, &c.


 
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