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Christian Standard Bible ®

1 Kings 3:8

Your servant is among Your people You have chosen, a people too numerous to be numbered or counted.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Communion;   Dream;   Prayer;   Solomon;   Scofield Reference Index - Bible Prayers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Earnest Suppliants;   Earnestness-Indifference;   Prayer;   Seven;   Solomon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Dreams;   Holy Land;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gibeon;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Dream;   Solomon;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Forgiveness;   Kings, First and Second, Theology of;   Prayer;   Wisdom;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gibeon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ecclesiastes, the Book of;   Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gibeon;   Intercession;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Prayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Wisdom of Solomon;   Worldliness (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Dream;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Divide;   Intercession;   King;   Wisdom of Solomon, the;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
And Your slave is in the midst of Your people which You have chosen, a numerous people who are too many to be numbered or counted.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Your servant is in the midst of Your people which You have chosen, a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And thy seruaunt is in the middest of thy people which thou hast chosen: and veryly the people are so many, that they cannot be told nor nubred for multitude.
Literal Translation
And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a numerous people that cannot be numbered or counted for multitude.
Easy-to-Read Version
I am your servant here among your chosen people. There are so many that they cannot be counted.
Revised Standard Version
And thy servant is in the midst of thy people whom thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered or counted for multitude.
World English Bible
Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for multitude.
King James Version (1611)
And thy seruant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbred, nor counted for multitude.
King James Version
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And thy seruaunt is amonge the people whom thou hast chosen: which is so greate, that no man can nombre them ner descrybe them for multitude.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
And your servant has round him the people of your selection, a people so great that they may not be numbered, and no account of them may be given.
Update Bible Version
And your slave is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that are too many to be numbered or counted.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
New English Translation
Your servant stands among your chosen people; they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number.
New King James Version
And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted.
Contemporary English Version
And now I must rule your chosen people, even though there are too many of them to count.
Complete Jewish Bible
Moreover your servant is among your people, whom you chose, a great people so numerous that they cannot be counted.
Darby Translation
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And thy seruant is in the mids of thy people, which thou hast chosen, euen a great people which cannot be told nor nobred for multitude.
George Lamsa Translation
A great people that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
Amplified Bible
"Your servant is among Your people whom You have chosen, a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted.
Hebrew Names Version
Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for multitude.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
New Living Translation
And here I am in the midst of your own chosen people, a nation so great and numerous they cannot be counted!
New Life Bible
Your servant is among Your people which You have chosen. They are many people. There are too many people to number.
New Revised Standard
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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But thy servant is in the midst of thy people, whom thou hast chosen, a great people, which cannot be numbered.
English Revised Version
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.
Berean Standard Bible
Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, thy servant, is in the midst of thy people, whom thou hast chosen, - a numerous people, that cannot be numbered or summed up, for multitude.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And thy servant is in the midst of the people which thou hast chosen, an immense people, which cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
Lexham English Bible
Your servant is in the middle of your people whom you have chosen; a great people who cannot be counted or numbered because of abundance.
English Standard Version
And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, too many to be numbered or counted for multitude.
New American Standard Bible
"And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted.
New Century Version
I, your servant, am here among your chosen people, and there are too many of them to count.
Good News Translation
Here I am among the people you have chosen to be your own, a people who are so many that they cannot be counted.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thi seruaunt is in the myddis of the puple, which thou hast chose, of puple with outen noumbre, that may not be noumbrid and rikened, for multitude.
Young's Literal Translation
and Thy servant [is] in the midst of thy people, whom Thou hast chosen, a people numerous, that is not numbered nor counted for multitude,

Contextual Overview

5 At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night. God said, "Ask. What should I give you?" 6 And Solomon replied, "You have shown great and faithful love to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and integrity. You have continued this great and faithful love for him by giving him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today. 7 " Lord my God, You have now made Your servant king in my father David's place. Yet I am just a youth with no experience in leadership. 8 Your servant is among Your people You have chosen, a people too numerous to be numbered or counted. 9 So give Your servant an obedient heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?" 10 Now it pleased the Lord that Solomon had requested this. 11 So God said to him, "Because you have requested this and did not ask for long life or riches for yourself, or the death of your enemies, but you asked discernment for yourself to understand justice, 12 I will therefore do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has never been anyone like you before and never will be again. 13 In addition, I will give you what you did not ask for: both riches and honor, so that no man in any kingdom will be your equal during your entire life. 14 If you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commands just as your father David did, I will give you a long life."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy people: Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Deuteronomy 7:6-8, 1 Samuel 12:22, Psalms 78:71

cannot: Genesis 13:16, Genesis 15:5, Genesis 22:17, 1 Chronicles 21:2, 1 Chronicles 21:5, 1 Chronicles 21:6, 1 Chronicles 27:23, 1 Chronicles 27:24

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:2 - General Exodus 18:17 - not good 1 Kings 4:20 - as the sand 2 Kings 9:6 - over the people 2 Chronicles 1:9 - for thou hast Daniel 2:21 - he giveth

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, ‘You can't eat from any tree in the garden'?"
Genesis 3:2
The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden.
Genesis 3:3
But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.'"
Genesis 3:9
So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"
Genesis 3:10
And he said, "I heard You in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."
Genesis 3:12
Then the man replied, "The woman You gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate."
Genesis 3:21
The Lord God made clothing out of skins for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
Genesis 3:22
The Lord God said, "Since man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever."
Deuteronomy 4:33
Has a people heard God's voice speaking from the fire as you have, and lived?
Deuteronomy 5:25
But now, why should we die? This great fire will consume us and we will die if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thy servant [is] in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen,.... To be his special and peculiar people above all people on the earth; this is not to be understood locally, though Jerusalem, where his palace was, was in the middle of the land; but of the exercise of his office, he being placed over the people, and among them, and having the care and inspection of them:

a great people, that cannot be numbered and counted for multitude; being for number as the stars in the sky, and as the sand upon the seashore, as had been promised.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare the marginal references. Solomon regards the promises as fulfilled in the existing greatness and glory of the Jewish nation.


 
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