1Ki 3:8 Cross References

1 Kings 3:8

8: And here I am among your own chosen people, a nation so great they are too numerous to count!

Then the LORD brought Abram outside beneath the night sky and told him, "Look up into the heavens and count the stars if you can. Your descendants will be like that--too many to count!"

And I am going to give you so many descendants that, like dust, they cannot be counted!

David gave these orders to Joab and his commanders: "Take a census of all the people in the land--from Beersheba in the south to Dan in the north--and bring me the totals so I may know how many there are."

I will bless you richly. I will multiply your descendants into countless millions, like the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. They will conquer their enemies,

He took David from tending the ewes and lambs and made him the shepherd of Jacob's descendants--God's own people, Israel.

When David took his census, he did not count those who were younger than twenty years of age, because the LORD had promised to make the Israelites as numerous as the stars in heaven.
Joab began the census but never finished it because the anger of God broke out against Israel. The final total was never recorded in King David's official records.

The LORD will not abandon his chosen people, for that would dishonor his great name. He made you a special nation for himself.

Now if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own special treasure from among all the nations of the earth; for all the earth belongs to me.
And you will be to me a kingdom of priests, my holy nation.' Give this message to the Israelites."

and reported the number of people to David. There were 1,100,000 men of military age in Israel, and 470,000 in Judah.
But Joab did not include the tribes of Levi and Benjamin in the census because he was so distressed at what the king had made him do.

For you are a holy people, who belong to the LORD your God. Of all the people on earth, the LORD your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure.
"The LORD did not choose you and lavish his love on you because you were larger or greater than other nations, for you were the smallest of all nations!
It was simply because the LORD loves you, and because he was keeping the oath he had sworn to your ancestors. That is why the LORD rescued you with such amazing power from your slavery under Pharaoh in Egypt.

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