Verse 8
1 Kings 3:8
Literal Standard Version
8
and Your servant is in the midst of your people, whom You have chosen, a people numerous, that is not numbered nor 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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Only, the people are sacrificing in high places, for there has not been built a house for the Name o...
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And now, O YHWH my God (Elohim), You have caused Your servant to reign instead of my father David; a...
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and Your servant is in the midst of your people, whom You have chosen, a people numerous, that is no...
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and You have given an understanding heart to Your servant, to judge Your people, to discern between...
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10
And the thing is good in the eyes of the Lord, that Solomon has asked this thing,
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and if you walk in My ways to keep My statutes, and My commands, as your father David walked, then I...
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15
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16
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and the first woman says, “O my lord, this woman and I are dwelling in one house, and I bring forth...
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and it comes to pass on the third day of my bringing forth, that this woman also brings forth, and w...
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And the son of this woman dies at night, because she has lain on him,
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and she rises in the middle of the night, and takes my son from beside me—and your handmaid is aslee...
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and I rise in the morning to suckle my son, and behold, he is dead; and I consider in the morning co...
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and the king says, “Cut the living child into two, and give half to one, and half to the other.”
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