1 Kings 4:20

In 11 translations

BSB

The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.

KJV

¶ Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.

WEB

Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

ASV

Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

LSV

Judah and Israel [are] many, as the sand that [is] by the sea for multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing.

YLT

Judah and Israel [are] many, as the sand that [is] by the sea for multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing.

DBY

Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

DRC

Juda and Israel were innumerable, as the sand of the sea in multitude: eating and drinking, and rejoicing.

GNV

Iudah and Israel were many, as the sand of the sea in number, eating, drinking, and making merry.

JPS

Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

LXXE2:46

And king Solomon was very prudent and wise: and Juda and Israel were very many, as the sand which is by the sea for multitude, eating, and drinking, and rejoicing:

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WLC

יְהוּדָ֤ה וְיִשְׂרָאֵל֙ רַבִּ֔ים כַּח֥וֹל אֲשֶׁר־עַל־הַיָּ֖ם לָרֹ֑ב אֹכְלִ֥ים וְשֹׁתִ֖ים וּשְׂמֵחִֽים׃

LXX-Br2:46

Καὶ ἦν ὁ βασιλεὺς Σαλωμὼν φρόνιμος σφόδρα καὶ σοφός· καὶ Ἰούδα καὶ Ἰσραὴλ πολλοὶ σφόδρα, ὡς ἡ ἄμμος ἡ ἐπὶ τῆς θαλάσσης εἰς πλῆθος, ἐσθίοντες καὶ πίνοντες καὶ χαίροντες·

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• Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
• 1 Kings 3:8Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.
• Genesis 32:12But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
• Ecclesiastes 2:24Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God.
• Acts 2:46With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,
• 1 Samuel 30:16So he led David down, and there were the Amalekites spread out over all the land, eating, drinking, and celebrating the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.
• Genesis 13:16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
• Psalms 72:3–7May the mountains bring peace to the people, and the hills bring righteousness. May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor. May they fear him as long…
• Zechariah 3:10On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, you will each invite your neighbor to sit under your own vine and fig tree.’”
• Genesis 15:5And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
• Job 1:18While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
• Micah 4:4And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.
• Zechariah 9:15The LORD of Hosts will shield them. They will destroy and conquer with slingstones; they will drink and roar as with wine. And they will be filled like sprinkling bowls, drenched like the corners of the altar.
• Proverbs 14:28A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.
• 1 Chronicles 12:39They spent three days there eating and drinking with David, for their relatives had provided for them.
• Isaiah 22:13But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

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