1 Kings 4:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts.

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  • 1 Kgs 3:8 : 8 And your servant has round him the people of your selection, a people so great that they may not be numbered, and no account of them may be given.
  • Gen 22:17 : 17 That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;
  • Gen 32:12 : 12 And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.
  • 1 Sam 30:16 : 16 And when he had taken him down, they saw them all, seated about on all sides, feasting and drinking among all the mass of goods which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.
  • Gen 13:16 : 16 And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.
  • Gen 15:5 : 5 And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.
  • 1 Chr 12:39 : 39 For three days they were there with David, feasting at his table, for their brothers had made ready food for them.
  • Job 1:18 : 18 And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house,
  • Ps 72:3-7 : 3 May the mountains give peace to the people, and the hills righteousness. 4 May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed. 5 May his life go on as long as the sun and moon, through all generations. 6 May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth. 7 In his days may the upright do well, living in peace as long as there is a moon in heaven.
  • Prov 14:28 : 28 A king's glory is in the number of his people: and for need of people a ruler may come to destruction.
  • Eccl 2:24 : 24 There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.
  • Isa 22:13 : 13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.
  • Mic 4:4 : 4 But every man will be seated under his vine and under his fig-tree, and no one will be a cause of fear to them: for the mouth of the Lord of armies has said it.
  • Zech 3:10 : 10 In that day, says the Lord of armies, you will be one another's guests under the vine and under the fig-tree.
  • Zech 9:15 : 15 The Lord of armies will be a cover for them; and they will overcome, crushing under foot the armed men; they will take their blood for drink like wine: they will be full like the sides of the altar.
  • Acts 2:46 : 46 And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,

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  • 1 Chr 12:39-40
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    74%

    39 For three days they were there with David, feasting at his table, for their brothers had made ready food for them.

    40 And those who were near, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came with food on asses and camels and mules and oxen, with meal for food and cakes of figs and masses of grapes, and wine and oil and oxen and sheep in great numbers, for there was joy in Israel.

  • Josh 11:4
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    4 And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a great people, in number like the sand on the seaside, with horses and war-carriages in great number.

  • 1 Kgs 4:21-26
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    72%

    21 And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life.

    22 And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;

    23 Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.

    24 For he had authority over all the country on this side of the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings on this side of the River; and he had peace round him on every side.

    25 So Judah and Israel were living safely, every man under his vine and his fig-tree, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

    26 And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen.

  • 1 Sam 30:16
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    16 And when he had taken him down, they saw them all, seated about on all sides, feasting and drinking among all the mass of goods which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 4:29
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    29 And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside.

  • 1 Kgs 8:65
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    65 So Solomon and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, (for the people had come together from the way into Hamath to the river of Egypt,) kept the feast at that time before the Lord our God, for two weeks, even fourteen days.

  • 2 Chr 30:25-26
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    69%

    25 And all the people of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and those who had come from Israel, and men from other lands who had come from Israel or who were living in Judah, were glad with great joy.

    26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for nothing like this had been seen in Jerusalem from the time of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.

  • Gen 41:49
    68%

    49 So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured.

  • Neh 8:12
    68%

    12 And all the people went away to take food and drink, and to send food to others, and to be glad, because the words which were said to them had been made clear.

  • Exod 1:7
    68%

    7 And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

  • Isa 56:12
    68%

    12 Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.

  • Isa 22:13
    68%

    13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

  • Eccl 8:15
    68%

    15 So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

  • Deut 33:19
    67%

    19 They will send out the word for the people to come to the mountain, taking there the offerings of righteousness: for the store of the seas will be theirs, and the secret wealth of the sand.

  • 2 Chr 7:8
    67%

    8 So Solomon kept the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, for the people had come together from the way into Hamath and from as far as the river of Egypt.

  • 1 Kgs 8:5
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    5 And King Solomon and all the men of Israel who had come together there, were with him before the ark, making offerings of sheep and oxen more than might be numbered.

  • Judg 7:12
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    12 Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.

  • Esth 1:7
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    7 And they gave them drink in gold vessels, every vessel being different, and wine of the kingdom, freely given by the king.

  • Neh 9:25
    66%

    25 And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

  • Jer 30:19
    66%

    19 And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.

  • Deut 1:10
    66%

    10 The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

  • Isa 9:3
    66%

    3 You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.

  • Zech 14:14
    66%

    14 And even Judah will be fighting against Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about will be massed together, a great store of gold and silver and clothing.

  • Judg 20:2
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    2 And the chiefs of the people, out of all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the meeting of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen armed with swords.

  • 1 Chr 5:17
    66%

    17 All these were listed under the names of their families, in the time of Jotham, king of Judah, and in the time of Jeroboam, king of Israel.

  • Gen 26:30
    66%

    30 Then he made a feast for them, and they all had food and drink.

  • Dan 5:1
    66%

    1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.

  • 1 Kgs 4:1
    66%

    1 Now Solomon was king over all Israel.

  • 1 Chr 16:3
    66%

    3 And he gave to everyone, every man and woman of Israel, a cake of bread, some meat, and a cake of dry grapes.

  • Judg 19:6
    65%

    6 So seating themselves they had food and drink, the two of them together; and the girl's father said to the man, If it is your pleasure, take your rest here tonight, and let your heart be glad.

  • Jer 25:20
    65%

    20 And all the mixed people and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon and Gaza and Ekron and the rest of Ashdod;

  • 2 Chr 5:6
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    6 And King Solomon and all the men of Israel who had come together there with him, were before the ark, making offerings of sheep and oxen more than might be numbered.

  • 2 Chr 1:15
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    15 And the king made silver and gold as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedar like the sycamore-trees of the lowland in number.

  • Judg 20:10
    65%

    10 And we will take ten men out of every hundred, through all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, a thousand out of every ten thousand, to get food for the people, so that they may give to Gibeah of Benjamin the right punishment for the act of shame they have done in Israel.

  • 2 Sam 17:11
    65%

    11 But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them.