1 Kings 3:8
6 Solomon replied, “You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day.
7 And 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.
Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.
9 Therefore 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?”
10 Now it pleased the Lord that Solomon had made this request.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- 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.
- BLB
- And Your servant [is] in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a people numerous that is not to be numbered and not to be counted for multitude.
- ÅB
- Og din tjener står her midt iblant ditt folk, det som du har utvalgt, et folk som er så stort at det ikke kan regnes eller telles, så stort er det.
- OTB
- Og her er din tjener blant ditt utvalgte folk, en stor mengde som ikke kan telles eller regnes.
- B1930
- Og din tjener står her midt iblandt ditt folk, det som du har utvalgt, et folk som er så stort at det ikke kan regnes eller telles, så stort er det.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 15:5
And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
Read in contextGenesis 13:16
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
Read in context1 Chronicles 21:2
So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan and bring me a report, so that I may know their number.”
Read in contextGenesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
Read in context1 Chronicles 27:23–24
David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.
Read in contextPsalms 78:71
from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.
Read in contextExodus 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.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 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.
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