Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
when ye were but a few men in number, yea, very few, and sojourners in it,
New American Standard Bible
Very few, and strangers in it,
King James Version
When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.
Holman Bible
very few indeed,
International Standard Version
When you were few in number very few, and strangers at that
American Standard Version
When ye were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it;
Amplified
When you were few in number,
Even a very few, and strangers in it,
Bible in Basic English
When you were still small in number, and strange in the land;
Darby Translation
When ye were a few men in number, Of small account, and strangers in it.
Julia Smith Translation
In your being men of number, as few, and strangers in it.
King James 2000
When you were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
When you were few in number, little, and sojourners [were] in it,
Modern King James verseion
when you were but few, even a few, and strangers in it,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When you were a small company in number, even but a few, and thereto strangers therein.
NET Bible
When they were few in number, just a very few, and foreign residents within it,
New Heart English Bible
when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.
The Emphasized Bible
While, as yet, ye were men who could be counted, a very few, and sojourners therein:
Webster
When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.
World English Bible
when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.
Youngs Literal Translation
When ye are few of number, As a little thing, and sojourners in it.
Themes
isaac » The miraculous son of abraham » Abrahamic covenant confirmed in
Praise » Of david » On bringing the ark of the covenant to zion
Psalms » Of david » Upon the occasion of moving the ark of the covenant
Interlinear
Micpar
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Chronicles 16:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
David's Psalm Of Thanksgiving
18 saying, To thee I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance, 19 when ye were but a few men in number, yea, very few, and sojourners in it, 20 and they went about from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.
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Cross References
Genesis 34:30
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smit
Deuteronomy 7:7
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 peoples,
Acts 7:5
And he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep. And he promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, although there was no child by him.
Hebrews 11:13
All these died in faith, not having taken the promises, but who saw and greeted them from afar, and who confessed that they were foreigners and sojourners on the earth.