1 Kings 4:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

Genesis 15:5

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to tell them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

Genesis 22:17

that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

Genesis 32:12

And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

1 Kings 3:8

And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

1 Kings 4:29

And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.

1 Kings 5:9

My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will make them into rafts to go by sea unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.

2 Kings 18:31

Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;

1 Chronicles 12:39

And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had made preparation for them.

1 Chronicles 22:9

Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days:

Job 1:18

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

Proverbs 14:28

In the multitude of people is the king's glory: But in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Isaiah 22:13

and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.

Micah 4:4

But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.

Zechariah 3:10

In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.

Zechariah 9:15

The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and shall tread down the sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine: and they shall be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar.

Acts 2:46

And day by day, continuing stedfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they did take their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

1 Samuel 30:16

And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and feasting, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.