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


In Context

5 At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, "Ask for whatever you want me to give you."

6 Solomon answered, "You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day.

7 "Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties.

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

9 So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?"

10 The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this.

1st Kings 3:8 in Other Translations

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,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:8And your servant is in the middle of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.