A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
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Gill's Exposition
A little one shall become a thousand,.... A small family, a little handful of people in all ages, scattered up and down in the world, of no esteem and account in it, being all gathered together, that…
Barnes' Notes
A little one shall become a thousand - There shall be a great increase, as if one, and that the smallest, should be multiplied to a thousand. The idea is, that the people, then small in number, would…
Adam Clarke
I the Lord will hasten it in his time - There is a time set for the fulfillment of this prophecy: that time must come before it begins to take place; but when it does begin, the whole will be…
The happy and glorious state of the church is here further foretold, referring principally and ultimately to the Christian church and the spiritual peace of that, but under the type of that little…
Cambridge Bible
A little one … a small one Better perhaps: The least … the smallest. The word for "thousand" ("éleph) means also a larger or smaller group of families, "clan" or tribe. This is doubtless the sense in…
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