1 Kings 3:8 Cross References - Rotherham

⁸ And, thy servant, is in the midst of thy people, whom thou hast chosen,––a numerous people, that cannot be numbered or summed up, for multitude.

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, thy seed also, may be numbered.

⁵ And he brought him forth abroad, and said––Look steadfastly, I pray thee, towards the heavens, and number the stars, if thou be able to number, them, And he said to him, Thus, shall be thy seed.

¹⁷ That I will, richly bless, thee, and, abundantly multiply, thy seed, as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the lip of the sea,––that thy seed may take possession of the gate of his foes:

⁵ Now, therefore, if ye will, indeed hearken, to my voice, And keep my covenant, Then shall ye be mine, as a treasure beyond all the peoples, For, mine, is all the earth; ⁶ But, ye, shall be mine, As a kingdom of priests, And a holy nation. These, are the words, which thou shalt speak unto the sons of Israel.

⁶ For, a holy people, art thou, unto Yahweh thy God: of thee, hath Yahweh thy God, made choice, that thou shouldest become his people as a treasure, above all the peoples that are on the face of the ground: ⁷ not because ye were more in number than any of the peoples, did Yahweh become attached to you, and make choice of you,––for, ye, were fewer than any of the peoples; ⁸ but, because Yahweh loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he sware unto your fathers, did Yahweh bring you forth with a firm hand,––and redeem thee out of the house of servants, out of the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

²² For Yahweh will not give up his people, because of his great name, for Yahweh was minded to make you his people.

² And David said unto Joab and unto the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel, from Beer–sheba even unto Dan,––and bring [the report] unto me, that I may know the number of them.

⁵ And Joab delivered the sum of the number of the people, unto David,––and all Israel was found to be a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men, who drew sword, and Judah, four hundred and seventy thousand men, who drew sword. ⁶ But, Levi and Benjamin, counted he not among them,––for detestable was the word of the king unto Joab.

²³ But David took not the number of them, from twenty years old, and under,––because Yahweh had said, he would multiply Israel like the stars of the heavens. ²⁴ Joab son of Zeruiah, began to number, but finished not, when there arose, on this account, indignation against Israel,––neither did the number come up into the account of the chronicles of King David.

⁷¹ From after the sucking ewes, he brought him in,––To be shepherd to Jacob his people, And to Israel, his inheritance.