1 Kings 4:20

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

There were so many people living in Judah and Israel while Solomon was king that they seemed like grains of sand on a beach. Everyone had enough to eat and drink, and they were happy.

Cross References

Genesis 13:16

I will give you more descendants than there are specks of dust on the earth, and some day it will be easier to count the specks of dust than to count your descendants.

Genesis 15:5

Then the LORD took Abram outside and said, “Look at the sky and see if you can count the stars. That's how many descendants you will have.”

Genesis 22:17

“I will bless you and give you such a large family, that some day your descendants will be more numerous than the stars in the sky or the grains of sand along the beach. They will defeat their enemies and take over the cities where their enemies live.

Genesis 32:12

But you have promised that I would be a success and that some day it will be as hard to count my descendants as it is to count the stars in the sky.

1 Kings 3:8

And now I must rule your chosen people, even though there are too many of them to count.

1 Kings 4:29

Solomon was brilliant. God had blessed him with insight and understanding.

1 Kings 5:9

My workers will carry them down from Lebanon to the Mediterranean Sea. They will tie the logs together and float them along the coast to wherever you want them. Then they will untie the logs, and your workers can take them from there. To pay for the logs, you can provide the grain I need for my household.

2 Kings 18:31

Stop listening to Hezekiah! Pay attention to my king. Surrender to him. He will let you keep your own vineyards, fig trees, and cisterns

1 Chronicles 12:39

The soldiers stayed in Hebron three days, eating and drinking what their relatives had prepared for them.

1 Chronicles 22:9

But when your son becomes king, I will give him peace throughout his kingdom. His name will be Solomon, because during his rule I will keep Israel safe and peaceful.

Job 1:18

That servant was still speaking, when a fourth one dashed up and said, “Your children were having a feast and drinking wine at the home of your eldest son,

Proverbs 14:28

Rulers of powerful nations are held in honour; rulers of weak nations are nothing at all.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

The best thing we can do is to enjoy eating, drinking, and working. I believe these are God's gifts to us,

Isaiah 22:13

But instead, you celebrated by feasting on beef and lamb and by drinking wine, because you said, “Let's eat and drink! Tomorrow we may die.”

Micah 4:4

Everyone will find rest beneath their own fig trees or grapevines, and they will live in peace. This is a solemn promise of the LORD All-Powerful.

Zechariah 3:10

Then each of you will live at peace and entertain your friends in your own vineyard and under your own fig trees.

Zechariah 9:15

The LORD All-Powerful will protect his people, and they will trample down the sharpshooters and their slingshots. They will drink and get rowdy; they will be as full as a bowl at the time of sacrifice.

Acts 2:46

Day after day they met together in the temple. They broke bread together in different homes and shared their food happily and freely,

1 Samuel 30:16

He led David to the Amalekites. They were eating and drinking everywhere, celebrating because of what they had taken from Philistia and Judah.