Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number. 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! 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. Berean Standard Bible Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number. King James Bible 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 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. 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. NASB 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. NASB 1977 “And Thy servant is in the midst of Thy people which Thou hast chosen, a great people who cannot be numbered or counted for multitude. 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. Amplified Bible Your servant is among Your people whom You have chosen, a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted. Christian Standard Bible Your servant is among your people you have chosen, a people too many to be numbered or counted. Holman Christian Standard Bible Your servant is among Your people You have chosen, a people too numerous to be numbered or counted. 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. Contemporary English Version And now I must rule your chosen people, even though there are too many of them to count. 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation I'm among your people whom you have chosen. They are too numerous to count or record. 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. International Standard Version Your servant lives in the midst of your people that you have chosen, a great people that is too numerous to be counted. Majority Standard Bible Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number. NET Bible Your servant stands among your chosen people; they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number. New Heart 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. 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. World English Bible Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionand Your servant [is] in the midst of your people, whom You have chosen, a people numerous, that is not numbered nor counted 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, Smith's Literal Translation And thy servant in the midst of thy people which thou didst choose, many people which shall not be numbered and counted for multitude. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd thy servant is in the midst of the people which thou hast chosen, an immense people, which cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. Catholic Public Domain Version 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. New American Bible I, your servant, among the people you have chosen, a people so vast that it cannot be numbered or counted. New Revised Standard Version 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. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleA great people that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated An abundant people that is not numbered and is not counted from its multitude. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And Thy servant is in the midst of Thy people which Thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. Brenton Septuagint Translation But thy servant is in the midst of thy people, whom thou hast chosen, a great people, which cannot be numbered. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Solomon's Prayer for Wisdom…7And now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in my father David’s place. But I am only a little child, not knowing how to go out or come in. 8Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number. 9Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?”… Cross References Deuteronomy 7:6-8 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth. / The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. / But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Genesis 12:2-3 I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. / I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.” Exodus 19:5-6 Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine. / And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.” 2 Samuel 7:23-24 And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt. / For You have established Your people Israel as Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God. Psalm 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance! Psalm 105:6-10 O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones. / He is the LORD our God; His judgments carry throughout the earth. / He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations— ... Isaiah 41:8-10 “But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend— / I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ‘You are My servant.’ I have chosen and not rejected you. / Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. Isaiah 43:1-4 But now, this is what the LORD says—He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine! / When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze. / For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place. ... Jeremiah 31:31-34 Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. / It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. / “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people. ... Hosea 1:10 Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’ Romans 9:25-26 As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,” / and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’” 1 Peter 2:9-10 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. / Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Galatians 3:7-9 Understand, then, that those who have faith are sons of Abraham. / The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” / So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. Hebrews 8:8-12 But God found fault with the people and said: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. / It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not abide by My covenant, and I disregarded them, declares the Lord. / For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people. ... Revelation 5:9-10 And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. / You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.” Treasury of Scripture And your servant is in the middle of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. thy people Exodus 19:5,6 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: … Deuteronomy 7:6-8 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth… 1 Samuel 12:22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people. cannot Genesis 13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. Genesis 22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; Jump to Previous Account Chosen Count Counted Great Midst Multitude Numbered Numerous Round Selection ServantJump to Next Account Chosen Count Counted Great Midst Multitude Numbered Numerous Round Selection Servant1 Kings 3 1. Solomon marries Pharaoh's daughter2. High places being in use, Solomon sacrifices at Gibeon 5. Solomon at Gibeon, in the choice which God gave him, 10. preferring wisdom, obtains wisdom, riches, and honor 16. Solomon's judgment makes him renowned Your servant This phrase reflects Solomon's humility and recognition of his role before God. The Hebrew word for "servant" is "עֶבֶד" (eved), which denotes a person who is in service to another, often with a sense of loyalty and dedication. In the biblical context, being a servant of God is a position of honor and responsibility. Solomon acknowledges his dependence on God and his commitment to serve Him faithfully, setting an example for leaders to prioritize divine guidance over personal ambition. is here among the people You have chosen a people too numerous to count or number Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Your servantוְעַ֨בְדְּךָ֔ (wə·‘aḇ·də·ḵā) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 5650: Slave, servant is here among בְּת֥וֹךְ (bə·ṯō·wḵ) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 8432: A bisection, the centre the people עַמְּךָ֖ (‘am·mə·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock You have chosen, בָּחָ֑רְתָּ (bā·ḥā·rə·tā) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 977: To try, select a people עַם־ (‘am-) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock too numerous מֵרֹֽב׃ (mê·rōḇ) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7230: Multitude, abundance, greatness to count יִמָּנֶ֛ה (yim·mā·neh) Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 4487: To weigh out, to allot, constitute officially, to enumerate, enroll or number. יִסָּפֵ֖ר (yis·sā·p̄êr) Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5608: To count, recount, relate Links 1 Kings 3:8 NIV1 Kings 3:8 NLT 1 Kings 3:8 ESV 1 Kings 3:8 NASB 1 Kings 3:8 KJV 1 Kings 3:8 BibleApps.com 1 Kings 3:8 Biblia Paralela 1 Kings 3:8 Chinese Bible 1 Kings 3:8 French Bible 1 Kings 3:8 Catholic Bible OT History: 1 Kings 3:8 Your servant is in the midst (1Ki iKi i Ki 1 Kg 1kg) |
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