1 Kings 3:8

But your servant is in the midst of your people, whom you have chosen, a great people, which as this day + 3:8 Gr. shall or will not. can’t be numbered.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The 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.

In Context

7And now, O Lord my God, you have + 3:7 Gr. given. appointed your servant in the room of David my father; and I am a little child, and know not my going out and my coming in.

9You shall give therefore to your servant a heart to hear and to judge your people justly, and to discern between good and evil: for who will be able to judge this your + 3:9 Gr. heavy. great people?

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Cross References

Genesis 13:16And I will make your seed like the + 13:16 Gr. sand. dust of the earth; if any one is able to number the dust of the earth, then shall your seed be numbered.

Genesis 22:17And + 22:17 Acts 3:25 in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have listened to my voice.

Leviticus 26:9And I will look upon you, and increase you, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

1 Samuel 12:22For the Lord will not cast off his people for his great name's sake, because the Lord graciously took you to himself for a people.

1 Chronicles 21:2And king David said to Joab and to the captains of the forces, Go, number Israel from Bersabee even to Dan, and bring me the account, and I shall know their number.

1 Chronicles 27:23But David took not their number from twenty years old and under: because the Lord said that he would multiply Israel as the stars of the heaven.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 3:6-16

God's Appearance to Solomon. ( b. c. 1014.) 5 In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. 6 And Solomon said, Thou hast showed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. 7 And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king… Read the whole commentary →

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