And I will make your descendents as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall your descendents also be numbered.
And he brought him forth outside, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said to him, So shall your descendents be.
That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your descendents as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is on the sea shore; and your descendents shall possess the gate of their enemies;
My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be unloaded there, and you shall receive them: and you shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
Do not listen to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then you may eat every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink every one the waters of his cistern:
Behold, a son shall be born to you, 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 to Israel in his days.
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:
There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.
And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their food with gladness and singleness of heart,
And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.