1 Kings 3:8
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
An abundant people that is not numbered and is not counted from its 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.

Contemporary English Version
And now I must rule your chosen people, even though there are too many of them to count.

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.

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.

JPS Tanakh 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.

Literal Standard Version
and Your servant [is] in the midst of your people, whom You have chosen, a people numerous, that is not numbered nor counted for multitude,

Majority Standard Bible
Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.

New American Bible
I, your servant, among the people you have chosen, a people so vast that it cannot be numbered or counted.

NET Bible
Your servant stands among your chosen people; they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number.

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.

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.

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,

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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
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."

Genesis 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.

Exodus 19:6
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."

Deuteronomy 7:6
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.

1 Kings 4:20
The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.


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;

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5. Solomon at Gibeon, in the choice which God gave him,
10. preferring wisdom, obtains wisdom, riches, and honor
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Verse 8. - And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen [see Deuteronomy 7:6], a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. [The promises of Genesis 13:16; Genesis 15:5, lived in the thoughts and language of the Jews, and were doubtless the original of this expression. Cf. also Numbers 23:10.]

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Your servant
וְעַ֨בְדְּךָ֔ (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


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