1 Chronicles 16:19
When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.
1 Chronicles 16:19 in other translations
| BSB | When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land, |
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| WEB | when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it. |
| ASV | When ye were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it; |
| YLT | When ye are few of number, As a little thing, and sojourners in it. |
| DARBY | When ye were a few men in number, Of small account, and strangers in it. |
| BBE | When you were still small in number, and strange in the land; |
| Webster | When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it. |
What does 1 Chronicles 16:19 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Chronicles 16:7-36
Let God be glorified in our praises. Let others be edified and taught, that strangers to him may be led to adore him. Let us ourselves triumph and trust in God. Those that give glory to God's name are allowed to glory in it. Let the everlasting covenant be the great matter of our joy his people of old, be remembered by us with thankfulness to him. Show forth from day to day his salvation, his promised salvation by…
1 Chronicles 16:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Chronicles 16:19
- Deuteronomy 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:
- Genesis 34:30
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
- Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
- Acts 7:5
And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
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Context
- 1 Chronicles 16:18
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;
- 1 Chronicles 16:19
When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.
- 1 Chronicles 16:20
And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;
1 Chronicles 16:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Cuando erais pocos en número, pocos y peregrinos en ella; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Quand vous étiez un petit nombre d’hommes, peu de chose, et étrangers dans le pays; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | als ihr ein zählbares Häuflein waret, gar wenige und Fremdlinge darin. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | cum essent pauci numero, parvi et coloni ejus. |