1 Kings 4:20 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 4:20

The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

KJV

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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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Eating and drinking, and making merry - They were very comfortable, very rich, very merry, and very corrupt. And this full feeding and dissipation led to a total corruption of manners.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
יְהוּדָ֤ה	ye.hu.Dah	Judah	H3063 →
וְיִשְׂרָאֵל֙	ve.Yis.ra.'El	and Israel	H3478 →
רַבִּ֔ים	ra.Bim	[were] numerous	H7227 →
כַּח֥וֹל	ka.Chol	like the sand	H2344 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	which	H834 →
עַל־	'al-	[is] at	H5921 →
הַיָּ֖ם	hai.Yam	the sea	H3220 →
לָרֹ֑ב	la.Ro	for multitude	H7230 →
אֹכְלִ֥ים	'o.khe.Lim	[they were] eating	H398 →
וְשֹׁתִ֖ים	ve.sho.Tim	and [were] drinking	H8354 →
וּשְׂמֵחִֽים׃	u.se.me.Chim	and [were] joyful	H8056 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
leads to
- Genesis 15:5
  And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 33:22
  As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister…
- Genesis 24:60
  And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
- Genesis 26:4
  I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
- Psalms 72:8–9
  May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
Through
1 Kings 3:8
Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.
leads to
- Genesis 22:17
  I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Genesis 32:12
But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
leads to
- Genesis 28:13–15
  And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the…
Through
Zechariah 9:15
The LORD of Hosts will shield them. They will destroy and conquer with slingstones; they will drink and roar as with wine. And they will be filled like sprinkling bowls, drenched like the corners…
leads to
- Zechariah 12:6
  On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among the sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right…