1 Kings 4:21

Contextual Overview

²⁰ Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. ²⁰ The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They were very contented, with plenty to eat and drink. ²⁰ Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. ²⁰ There were as many people in Judah and Israel as grains of sand on the seashore. The people ate, drank, and were happy. ²⁰ The people of Judah and Israel were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore; they had plenty to eat and drink and were happy. ²⁰ Judah and Israel [were] many, as the sand which [is] by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. ²⁰ Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. ²⁰[The people of] Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is in abundance by the sea; they were eating and drinking and rejoicing. ²⁰ Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy. ²⁰ Juda and Israel weren vnnoumbrable, as the soond of the see in multitude, etynge, and drynkynge, and beynge glad.

Bible Verse Review
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Solomon: 1 Kings 4:24, Genesis 15:18, Exodus 23:31, Deuteronomy 11:24, Joshua 1:4, 2 Chronicles 9:26-31, Ezra 4:20, Psalms 72:8-11

brought: 1 Samuel 10:27, 2 Kings 17:3, 2 Chronicles 17:5, 2 Chronicles 32:23, Psalms 68:29, Psalms 72:10, Psalms 72:11, Psalms 76:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:29 - Let people Genesis 43:11 - carry down Numbers 24:7 - his kingdom Deuteronomy 15:6 - thou shalt reign Deuteronomy 19:8 - General 2 Samuel 8:3 - at the river 1 Kings 3:13 - riches 1 Kings 8:65 - from the entering 2 Kings 24:7 - from the river 1 Chronicles 13:5 - Shihor 2 Chronicles 7:8 - from the entering Psalms 68:13 - the wings Psalms 80:11 - General Psalms 89:25 - I will Proverbs 14:28 - General Ecclesiastes 2:25 - who can Lamentations 1:1 - great Ezekiel 16:13 - and thou didst Zechariah 9:10 - from the river

Cross-References

Genesis 4:11
And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

Genesis 4:11
And now cursed are you from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand;

Genesis 4:11
And now you will be cursed in your work with the ground, the same ground where your brother's blood fell and where your hands killed him.

Genesis 4:11
So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

Genesis 4:11
And now [art] thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

Genesis 4:11
Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

Genesis 4:11
"And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's [shed] blood from your hand.

Genesis 4:11
Now therfor thou schalt be cursid on erthe, that openyde his mouth, and resseyuede of thin hond the blood of thi brothir.

Genesis 4:11
and now, cursed [art] thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand;

Genesis 4:11
Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms,.... Not only over Judah and Israel, but all people round about him, they standing in fear of him; or who brought him presents, or paid tribute to him, which was an acknowledgment of superiority over them, and doing homage to him:

from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt; that is, from the river Euphrates, as the Targum, which was the border of his proper domains to the east, to Palestine, inhabited by the Philistines, which lay to the west, and as far as the border of Egypt, which was the southern boundary; a like and larger extent of Christ's kingdom is given, Psalms 72:8;

and they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life; this explains in what sense other kingdoms besides were ruled by Solomon, and subject to him; of Christ his antitype, see Psalms 72:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Solomon’s empire, like all the great empires of Asia down to the time of the Persians, consisted of a congeries of small kingdoms, all ruled by their own kings 1 Kings 4:24, who admitted the suzerainty of the Jewish monarch, and paid him “presents,” i. e., an annual tribute (see 1 Kings 10:25).

Unto the land of the Philistines - There is no word corresponding to “unto” in the Hebrew. The construction should be, “Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the river (i. e., the Euphrates: see the marginal references), over the land of the Philistines,” etc. The writer draws attention to the fact that the extent of Solomon’s kingdom was in accordance with the promises made to Abraham, Moses, and Joshua.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 4:21. Solomon reigned over all kingdoms — The meaning of this verse appears to be, that Solomon reigned over all the provinces from the river Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, even to the frontiers of Egypt. The Euphrates was on the east of Solomon's dominions; the Philistines were westward on the Mediterranean sea; and Egypt was on the south. Solomon had, therefore, as tributaries, the kingdoms of Syria, Damascus, Moab, and Ammon, which lay between the Euphrates and the Mediterranean. See Calmet. Thus he appears to have possessed all the land that God covenanted with Abraham to give to his posterity.