Verse 20
1 Kings 4:20
Bible in Basic English
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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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
יְהוּדָ֤ה וְ/יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ רַבִּ֔ים כַּ/ח֥וֹל אֲשֶׁר עַל הַ/יָּ֖ם לָ/רֹ֑ב אֹכְלִ֥ים וְ/שֹׁתִ֖ים וּ/שְׂמֵחִֽים
English Translation
Judah and Israel are many like the sand that is on the sea; they eat and drink and are happy.
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Chapter 4 Context
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Now Solomon was king over all Israel.
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And these were his chief men: Azariah, the son of Zadok, was the priest;
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Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were scribes; Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the reco...
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Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was head of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
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Azariah, the son of Nathan, was over those in authority in the different divisions of the country; Z...
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Ahishar was controller of the king's house; Adoniram, the son of Abda, was overseer of the forced wo...
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And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the ki...
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And these are their names: ... the son of Hur in the hill country of Ephraim;
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... the son of Deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;
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... the son of Hesed in Arubboth; Socoh and all the land of Hepher were under his control;
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... the son of Abinadab in all Naphath-dor; his wife was Taphath, the daughter of Solomon.
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Baana, the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is by the side of Zaretha...
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... the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead; he had the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in G...
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Ahinadab, the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
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Ahimaaz in Naphtali; he took Basemath, the daughter of Solomon, as his wife;
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Baana, the son of Hushai, in Asher and Aloth;
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Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
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Shimei, the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
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Geber, the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, ki...
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Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and dr...
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And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as fa...
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And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures...
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Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles...
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For he had authority over all the country on this side of the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all...
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So Judah and Israel were living safely, every man under his vine and his fig-tree, from Dan as far a...
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And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand hor...
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And those overseers, every man in his month, saw that food was produced for Solomon and all his gues...
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And they took grain and dry grass for the horses and the carriage-horses, to the right place, every...
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And God (Elohim) gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as w...
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And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of...
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For he was wiser than all men, even than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman and Calcol and Darda, the son...
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He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.
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He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and a...
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People came from every nation to give ear to the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth...
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