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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ki 3:8 — And thy servant [is] in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
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Exd 19:5 |
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth [is] mine: |
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Exd 19:6 |
And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These [are] the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. |
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Deu 7:6 |
For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that [are] upon the face of the earth. |
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Deu 7:7 |
The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye [were] the fewest of all people: |
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Deu 7:8 |
But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. |
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1Sa 12:22 |
For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people. |
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Psa 78:71 |
From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. |
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Gen 13:16 |
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy seed also be numbered. |
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Gen 15:5 |
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. |
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Gen 22:17 |
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; |
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1Ch 21:2 |
And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know [it]. |
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1Ch 21:5 |
And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all [they of] Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah [was] four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword. |
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1Ch 21:6 |
But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab. |
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1Ch 27:23 |
But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens. |
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1Ch 27:24 |
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "1 Kings 3:8," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/1Ki/3/8.html>.
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