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Green's Literal Translation

2 Chronicles 1:9

Now, O Jehovah God, Your Word with my father David is confirmed, for You have made me to reign over a people as many as the dust of the earth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Communion;   God;   Solomon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Holy Land;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Elect, Election;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gibeon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nahum (2);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Wisdom of Solomon;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Dust;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Hyperbole;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Lord God, let your promise to my father David now come true. For you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
Hebrew Names Version
Now, LORD God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the eretz in multitude.
King James Version
Now, O Lord God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
English Standard Version
O Lord God, let your word to David my father be now fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
New Century Version
Now, Lord God, may your promise to my father David come true. You have made me king of a people who are as many as the dust of the earth.
New English Translation
Now, Lord God, may your promise to my father David be realized, for you have made me king over a great nation as numerous as the dust of the earth.
Amplified Bible
"Now, O LORD God, Your promise to my father David is fulfilled, for You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
New American Standard Bible
"Now, LORD God, Your promise to my father David is fulfilled, for You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
World English Bible
Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe therefore, O Lorde God, let thy promes vnto Dauid my father be true: for thou hast made mee King ouer a great people, like to the dust of the earth.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now, O Yahweh God, let Your promise to my father David endure, for You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
Berean Standard Bible
Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to my father David be fulfilled. For You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
Contemporary English Version
I am supposed to rule these people, but there are as many of them as there are specks of dust on the ground. So keep the promise you made to my father
Complete Jewish Bible
Now, Adonai , God, you have been faithful to your promise to David my father; for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the grains of dust on the earth.
Darby Translation
Now, Jehovah Elohim, let thy word unto David my father be firm; for thou hast made me king over a people numerous as the dust of the earth.
Easy-to-Read Version
Now, Lord God, continue to keep your promise to my father David. You made me king over so many people that they are like the dust of the earth.
George Lamsa Translation
Now, O LORD my God, let thy promise to David my father be established; for thou hast made me king over this people, like the dust of the earth in multitude.
Good News Translation
O Lord God, fulfill the promise you made to my father. You have made me king over a people who are so many that they cannot be counted,
Lexham English Bible
Now, O Yahweh God, let your word to David my father be fulfilled, for you yourself have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now LORDE God, let yi worde that thou hast promysed vnto my father Dauid, be verified, for thou hast made me kynge ouer a people, which is as many in nobre as the dust vpon the earth.
American Standard Version
Now, O Jehovah God, let thy promise unto David my father be established; for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
Bible in Basic English
Now, O Lord God, let your word to David my father come true; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in number.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Now therefore, O Lorde God, let thy promise which thou madest vnto Dauid my father, be true: For thou hast made me king ouer a people which is lyke the dust of the earth in multitude:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Now, O LORD God, let Thy promise unto David my father be established; for Thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
King James Version (1611)
Now, O Lord God, let thy promise vnto Dauid my father be established: for thou hast made mee King ouer a people, like the dust of the earth in multitude.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now, O Lord God, let, I pray thee, thy name be established upon David my father; for thou hast made me king over a people numerous as the dust of the earth.
English Revised Version
Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Now therfor, Lord God, thi word be fillid, which thou bihiytist to Dauid, my fadir; for thou hast maad me kyng on thi greet puple, which is so vnnoumbrable as the dust of erthe.
Update Bible Version
Now, O Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
Webster's Bible Translation
Now, O LORD God, let thy promise to David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
New King James Version
Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to David my father be established, for You have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
New Living Translation
O Lord God, please continue to keep your promise to David my father, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth!
New Life Bible
Now, O Lord God, Your promise to my father David has come true. For You have made me king over as many people as the dust of the earth.
New Revised Standard
O Lord God, let your promise to my father David now be fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, O Yahweh Elohim, let thy word with David my father be brought to pass,-for, thou, hast made me king over a people, for multitude like the dust of the earth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Now therefore, O Lord God, let thy word be fulfilled, which thou hast promised to David my father: for thou hast made me king over thy great people, which is as innumerable as the dust of the earth.
Revised Standard Version
O LORD God, let thy promise to David my father be now fulfilled, for thou hast made me king over a people as many as the dust of the earth.
Young's Literal Translation
Now, O Jehovah God, is Thy word with David my father stedfast, for Thou hast caused me to reign over a people numerous as the dust of the earth;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now, O LORD God, Your promise to my father David is fulfilled, for You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

Contextual Overview

1 And Solomon the son of David made himself strong over his kingdom, and Jehovah his God was with him, and made him exceedingly great. 2 And Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of the thousands, and of the hundreds, and to judges, and to every honorable one of all Israel, heads of the fathers; 3 and they went, Solomon and all the congregation with him, to the high place that was in Gibeon, for there was God's tabernacle of the congregation that Moses, the servant of Jehovah, had made in the wilderness. 4 But David had brought up the ark of God from Kirjath-jearim, when David made ready for it, for he had stretched out a tent for it in Jerusalem; 5 and the altar of bronze that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put it before the tabernacle of Jehovah; and Solomon and the congregation sought to it. 6 And Solomon went up there on the bronze altar before Jehovah, that was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered on it a thousand burnt offerings. 7 In that night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, Ask what I shall give to you. 8 And Solomon said to God, You have acted with great kindness with my father David, and have made me king in his place. 9 Now, O Jehovah God, Your Word with my father David is confirmed, for You have made me to reign over a people as many as the dust of the earth. 10 Now give to me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this, Your great people?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

let thy promise: 2 Samuel 7:12-16, 2 Samuel 7:25-29, 1 Chronicles 17:11-14, 1 Chronicles 17:23-27, 1 Chronicles 28:6, 1 Chronicles 28:7, Psalms 89:35-37, Psalms 132:11, Psalms 132:12

for thou hast: 1 Kings 3:7, 1 Kings 3:8

like the dust: Heb. much as the dust, Genesis 13:16, Genesis 22:17, Numbers 23:10

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 13:5 - as the sand 1 Kings 2:24 - set me 1 Kings 8:26 - let thy word 2 Kings 2:9 - Elisha said 1 Chronicles 28:5 - to sit Matthew 25:16 - went

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth;
Genesis 1:2
and the earth being without form and empty, and darkness on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moving gently on the face of the waters,
Genesis 1:5
And God called the light, Day. And He called the darkness, Night. And there was evening, and there was morning the first day.
Genesis 1:6
And God said, Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be dividing between the waters and the waters.
Genesis 1:8
And God called the expanse, Heavens. And there was evening, and there was morning the second day.
Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be collected to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so.
Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let the earth sprout tender sprouts, the plant seeding seed, the fruit tree producing fruit according to its kind, whichever seed is in it on the earth. And it was so.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the seas, and over birds of the heavens, and over all beasts creeping on the earth.
Genesis 1:29
And God said, Behold, I have given you every plant seeding seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree seeding seed; it shall be food for you.
Job 26:7
He stretched out the north over the empty place; and He hung the earth on nothing.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The verbal differences between this passage and the corresponding one of Kings 1 Kings 3:5-14 are very considerable, and indicate the general truth that the object of the sacred historians is to give a true account of the real bearing of what was said: not ordinarily to furnish us with all or the exact words that were uttered. The most important point omitted in Chronicles, and supplied by Kings, is the conditional promise of long life made to Solomon 1 Kings 3:14; while the chief point absent from Kings, and recorded by our author, is the solemn appeal made by Solomon to the promise of God to David his father 2 Chronicles 1:9, which he now called upon God to “establish,” or to perform.

2 Chronicles 1:12

I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honor - Remark that the writer says nothing of any promise to Solomon of “long life,” which, however, had been mentioned in 2 Chronicles 1:11 among the blessings which he might have been expected to ask. The reason for the omission would seem to lie in the writer’s desire to record only what is good of this great king. Long life was included in the promises made to him; but it was granted conditionally; and Solomon not fulfilling the conditions, it did not take effect (1 Kings 3:14 note).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 1:9. Let thy promise — דברך debarcha, thy word; פתגמך pithgamach, Targum. It is very remarkable that when either God or man is represented as having spoken a word then the noun פתגם pithgam is used by the Targumist; but when word is used personally, then he employs the noun מימרא meymera, which appears to answer to the Λογος of St. John, John 1:1, &c.


 
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