1 Kings 4:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea; they ate and drank and were happy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Judah and Israel were many, like the sand which is by the sea in multitude; they ate, drank, and rejoiced.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Judah and Israel grew numerous like the sand alongside the sea. They ate, drank, and celebrated.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Judah and Israel were innumerable, like the sand of the sea in multitude: eating and drinking, and rejoicing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Juda and Israel were innumerable, as the sand of the sea in multitude: eating and drinking, and rejoicing.

1 Kings 4:20 Cross References

Genesis 13:16

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.

Genesis 15:5

He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

Genesis 22:17

I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies,

Genesis 32:12

Yet you have said, ‘I will surely do you good and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of their number.’ ”

1 Kings 3:8

And your servant is in the midst of the people whom you have chosen, a great people so numerous they cannot be numbered or counted.

1 Kings 4:29

God gave Solomon very great wisdom, discernment, and breadth of understanding as vast as the sand on the seashore,

1 Kings 5:9

My servants shall bring it down to the sea from the Lebanon; I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you indicate. I will have them broken up there for you to take away. And you shall meet my needs by providing food for my household.”

2 Kings 18:31

Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me and come out to me; then every one of you will eat from your own vine and your own fig tree and drink water from your own cistern,

1 Chronicles 12:39

They were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their kindred had provided for them.

1 Chronicles 22:9

See, a son shall be born to you; he shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side; indeed, his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days.

Job 1:18

While he was still speaking, another came and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,

Proverbs 14:28

The glory of a king is a multitude of people; without people a prince is ruined.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink and find enjoyment in their toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,

Isaiah 22:13

but instead there was joy and festivity, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Micah 4:4

but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.

Zechariah 3:10

On that day, says the Lord of hosts, you shall invite each other to come under your vine and fig tree.”

Zechariah 9:15

The Lord of hosts will protect them, and they shall consume and conquer the slingers; they shall drink their blood like wine and be full like a bowl, drenched like the corners of the altar.

Acts 2:46

Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts,

1 Samuel 30:16

When he had taken him down, they were spread out all over the ground, eating and drinking and dancing, because of the great amount of spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.