I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
1 Kings 4:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea; they were eating, drinking, and rejoicing. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 Judah and Israel were many, like the sand which is by the sea in multitude; they ate, drank, and rejoiced. American Standard Version (1901) Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. Common English Bible Judah and Israel grew numerous like the sand alongside the sea. They ate, drank, and celebrated. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Juda and Israel were innumerable, as the sand of the sea in multitude: eating and drinking, and rejoicing. |
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
He took him outside and said, ‘Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.’ Then he said to him, ‘Your offspring will be that numerous.’
I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the city gates of their enemies.
You have said, “I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to be counted.” ’
Your servant is among your people you have chosen, a people too many to be numbered or counted.
God gave Solomon wisdom, very great insight, and understanding as vast as the sand on the seashore.
My servants will bring the logs down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place you indicate. I will break them apart there, and you can take them away. You then can meet my needs by providing my household with food.’
‘Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: “Make peace with me and surrender to me. Then each of you may eat from his own vine and his own fig-tree, and each may drink water from his own cistern
They spent three days there eating and drinking with David, for their relatives had provided for them.
But a son will be born to you; he will be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his surrounding enemies, for his name will be Solomon, , and I will give peace and quiet to Israel during his reign.
He was still speaking when another messenger came and reported, ‘Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house.
A large population is a king’s splendour, but a shortage of people is a ruler’s devastation.
There is nothing better for a person than to eat, drink, and enjoy , his work. I have seen that even this is from God’s hand,
But look: joy and gladness, butchering of cattle, slaughtering of sheep and goats, eating of meat, and drinking of wine – ‘Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die! ’
But each person will sit under his grapevine and under his fig tree with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the Lord of Armies has spoken.
On that day, each of you will invite his neighbour to sit under his vine and fig tree.’ This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.
The Lord of Armies will defend them. They will consume and conquer with slingstones; they will drink and be rowdy as if with wine. They will be as full as the sprinkling basin, like those at the corners of the altar.
Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple, and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with joyful and sincere hearts,
So he led him, and there were the Amalekites, spread out over the entire area, eating, drinking, and celebrating because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.