...multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince. Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinldng, and making merry. And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the .land of...

...Their happiness and material prosperity is described in the words of Scripture, which record that, " Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by...multitude, eating and drinking and making merry." Solomon, therefore, was pre eminent among the kings of the earth, whom he excelled in riches and wisdom;...

...narrative. "Judah and Israel," both divisions of the people, now for the last time united in one, " were " many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude ; "eating and drinking, and making merry. . . . Judah "and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his own u vine " (that is, the vine that clustered...

...of dromedaries. Yet the population of the country did not, at first at least, feel these burdens : Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by...multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. The foreign treaties of Solomon were as wisely directed to secure the profound peace of his dominions....

...giving him his own daughter Tappath, as his wife ; so that he became the king's son-in-law. And now " Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude;" they had no war and no pestilence to lessen their large numbers, and still kept increasing. And so...

...country must have been well watered and productive then, as well as when, in the days of Solomon, " Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by...multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry" (1 Kings iv. 20). The "following are testimonies to the subsequent and present conditions of the promised...

...narrative. ' Judah and Israel,' both divisions of the people, now for the last time united in one, 'were many, as the sand which is ' by the sea in multitude ; eating and drinking, and making ' merry. . . . Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man ' under his own vine ' (that is, the vine that clustered...

...refused to proceed" (Stanley, Jewish Church, Vol. III. p. 125, Neh. ii. \i — 15): the people, once "many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry" (i Kings iv. 20), now scattered among the heathen, represented on their native soil only by the poor...

...account for the notice which follows that Geber was the only officer, though the country was so large. sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the...

...extravagance : " Silver was in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar-trees as sycamores" (2 Chron. ix. 15-28). Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by...multitude — eating, and drinking, and making merry. As a necessary consequence of this great prodigality heavy taxation followed. The customs and duties,...