Verse 8
1 Kings 3:8
World Messianic Bible
8
Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/עַ֨בְדְּ/ךָ֔ בְּ/ת֥וֹךְ עַמְּ/ךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בָּחָ֑רְתָּ עַם רָ֕ב אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא יִמָּנֶ֛ה וְ/לֹ֥א יִסָּפֵ֖ר מֵ/רֹֽב
English Translation
And your servant is within your people that you have chosen, a great people that cannot be numbered and cannot be counted because of its multitude.
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Chapter 3 Context
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Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her in...
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However the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for Yahweh...
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3
Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and bur...
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4
The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a tho...
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5
In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God (Elohim) said, “Ask for what I sh...
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6
Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walk...
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7
Now, Yahweh my God (Elohim), you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a...
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8
Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or c...
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Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between...
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10
This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
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11
God (Elohim) said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long l...
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12
behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart;...
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13
I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not b...
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14
If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, t...
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15
Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of Ya...
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16
Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.
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17
The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her...
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18
The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger...
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19
This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it.
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20
She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid it in her...
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21
When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in th...
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The other woman said, “No; but the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.”
The first on...
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Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other s...
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24
The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.
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The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”
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Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and...
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Then the king answered, “Give her the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mothe...
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