1 Rois 3:8

Louis Segond

Ton serviteur est au milieu du peuple que tu as choisi, peuple immense, qui ne peut être ni compté ni nombré, à cause de sa multitude.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et ton serviteur est au milieu du peuple que tu as choisi, ce grand peuple qui ne se peut dénombrer ni compter à cause de sa multitude.

Darby's French Translation
et ton serviteur est au milieu de ton peuple, que tu as choisi, un peuple nombreux, qui ne se peut compter ni nombrer à cause de sa multitude.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et ton serviteur est parmi ton peuple, que tu as choisi, [et] qui est un grand peuple qui ne se peut compter ni nombrer, tant il est en grand nombre.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy people: Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Deuteronomy 7:6-8, 1 Samuel 12:22, Psalms 78:71

cannot: Genesis 13:16, Genesis 15:5, Genesis 22:17, 1 Chronicles 21:2, 1 Chronicles 21:5, 1 Chronicles 21:6, 1 Chronicles 27:23, 1 Chronicles 27:24

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:2 - General Exodus 18:17 - not good 1 Kings 4:20 - as the sand 2 Kings 9:6 - over the people 2 Chronicles 1:9 - for thou hast Daniel 2:21 - he giveth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thy servant [is] in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen,.... To be his special and peculiar people above all people on the earth; this is not to be understood locally, though Jerusalem, where his palace was, was in the middle of the land; but of the exercise of his office, he being placed over the people, and among them, and having the care and inspection of them:

a great people, that cannot be numbered and counted for multitude; being for number as the stars in the sky, and as the sand upon the seashore, as had been promised.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare the marginal references. Solomon regards the promises as fulfilled in the existing greatness and glory of the Jewish nation.