1 Kings 4:20

New American Bible - revised edition

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sands by the sea; they ate and drank and rejoiced.

Cross References

Genesis 13:16

I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth; if anyone could count the dust of the earth, your descendants too might be counted.

Genesis 15:5

He took him outside and said: Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so, he added, will your descendants be.

Genesis 22:17

I will bless you and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; your descendants will take possession of the gates of their enemies,

Genesis 32:12

Save me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau! Otherwise I fear that he will come and strike me down and the mothers with the children.

1 Kings 3:8

I, your servant, among the people you have chosen, a people so vast that it cannot be numbered or counted.

1 Kings 5:9

Moreover, God gave Solomon wisdom, exceptional understanding, and knowledge, as vast as the sand on the seashore.

2 Kings 18:31

Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: Make peace with me, and surrender to me! Eat, each of you, from your vine, each from your own fig tree. Drink water, each from your own well,

1 Chronicles 12:39

All these soldiers, drawn up in battle order, came to Hebron with the resolute intention of making David king over all Israel. The rest of Israel was likewise of one mind to make David king.

1 Chronicles 22:9

However, a son will be born to you. He will be a peaceful man, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. For Solomon shall be his name, and in his time I will bestow peace and tranquility on Israel.

Job 1:18

He was still speaking when another came and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother,

Proverbs 14:28

A multitude of subjects is the glory of the king; but if his people are few, a prince is ruined.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink and provide themselves with good things from their toil. Even this, I saw, is from the hand of God.

Isaiah 22:13

But look! instead, there was celebration and joy, slaughtering cattle and butchering sheep, Eating meat and drinking wine: “Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

Micah 4:4

They shall all sit under their own vines, under their own fig trees, undisturbed; for the Lord of hosts has spoken.

Zechariah 3:10

On that day—oracle of the Lord of hosts—you will invite one another under your vines and fig trees.”

Zechariah 9:15

The Lord of hosts will protect them; they will devour and conquer with sling stones, they will drink and become heated as with wine; they will be full like bowls—like the corners of the altar.

Acts 2:46

Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple area and to breaking bread in their homes. They ate their meals with exultation and sincerity of heart,

1 Samuel 30:16

So he led them down, and there were the Amalekites lounging all over the ground, eating, drinking, and celebrating because of all the rich plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah. The Plunder Recovered.