1 Kings 3:8
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.
In context
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.
8 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.
1 Kings 3:8 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.
- KJV 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.
- WEB 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.
- ASV 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.
- YLT 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,
- DBY Darby 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.
- WBS Webster 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.