8And your servant is in the middle of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.


In Context

5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give you.

6 And Solomon said, You have showed to your servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you; and you have kept for him this great kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

7 And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.

8 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.

9 Give therefore your servant an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this your so great a people?

10 And the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this thing.

1 Kings 3:8 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:8Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:8And thy servant [is] in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:8And thy servant is in the midst of the people which thou hast chosen, an immense people, which cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:8And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:8And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:8And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:8And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:8Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for multitude.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:8and Thy servant is in the midst of thy people, whom Thou hast chosen, a people numerous, that is not numbered nor counted for multitude,