1st Kings Chapter 4 verse 20 Holy Bible
Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
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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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Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
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Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
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Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
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Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
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Judah and Israel `are' many, as the sand that `is' by the sea for multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude [a reminiscence of Genesis 13:16; Genesis 22:17; Genesis 32:12 (cf. ch. 3:8). In the reign of Solomon these promises had their fulfilment], eating and drinking, and making merry. [Cf. 1 Samuel 30:16. The Hebrew here begins a new chapter. The LXX. omits vers. 20, 21, 25, 26, and places vers. 27, 28, "and those officers," etc., after the list of prefects, ver. 19.]
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) Were many.--The description of the condition of the people here and in 1Kings 4:25, as multiplied in numbers, and living in festivity and peace, is evidently designed to specify not only their general prosperity and wealth, but also the fact noticed in 1Kings 9:20-22, that at this time they were a dominant race, relieved from all burden of labour, and ruling over the subject races, now reduced to complete subjection and serfship. (That it was otherwise hereafter is clear from the complaints to Rehoboam in 1Kings 12:4.) Now, for the first time, did Israel enter on full possession of the territory promised in the days of the Conquest (Joshua 1:4), and so into the complete fulfilment of the promise to Abraham, alluded to in the words, "many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude" (Genesis 22:17).
