Solomon's Wealth and Wisdom

20 Judah and Israel were as many (A)as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy.

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(A)And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, (B)too many to be numbered or counted for multitude.

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17 I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring (A)as the stars of heaven and (B)as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess (C)the gate of his[a] enemies,

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 22:17 Or their

12 But (A)you said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”

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46 And day by day, (A)attending the temple (B)together and (C)breaking bread in their homes, they received their food (D)with glad and generous hearts,

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15 The Lord of hosts (A)will protect them,
    and (B)they shall devour, (C)and tread down the sling stones,
and (D)they shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine,
    and be full like a bowl,
    drenched (E)like the corners of the altar.

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10 In that day, declares the Lord of hosts, every one of you will invite his neighbor to come (A)under his vine and under his fig tree.”

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(A)but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree,
    (B)and no one shall make them afraid,
    (C)for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.

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13 and behold, joy and gladness,
    killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
    eating flesh and drinking wine.
(A)“Let us eat and drink,
    for tomorrow we die.”

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24 (A)There is nothing better for a person than that he should (B)eat and drink and find enjoyment[a] in his toil. This also, I saw, is (C)from the hand of God,

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:24 Or and make his soul see good

28 In (A)a multitude of people is the glory of a king,
    but without people a prince is ruined.

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Let the mountains bear (A)prosperity for the people,
    and the hills, in righteousness!
May he defend the cause of the poor of the people,
    give deliverance to the children of the needy,
    and crush the oppressor!

May they fear you[a] while (B)the sun endures,
    and as long as the moon, (C)throughout all generations!
May he be like (D)rain that falls on (E)the mown grass,
    like (F)showers that water the earth!
In his days may (G)the righteous flourish,
    and (H)peace abound, till the moon be no more!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 72:5 Septuagint He shall endure

18 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, (A)“Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

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39 And they were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their brothers had made preparation for them.

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David Defeats the Amalekites

16 And when he had taken him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

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And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and (A)number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, (B)“So shall your offspring be.”

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16 (A)I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.

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