Quotes about Abundance
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
— 1 Samuel 2:5
Then all the troops entered the forest, and there was honey on the ground.
— 1 Samuel 14:25
How much better it would have been if the troops had eaten freely today from the plunder they took from their enemies! Would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been much greater?”
— 1 Samuel 14:30
The rich man had a great number of sheep and cattle,
— 2 Samuel 12:2
I gave your master’s house to you and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah, and if that was not enough, I would have given you even more.
— 2 Samuel 12:8
They brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,
— 2 Samuel 17:28
Moreover, I will give you what you did not request—both riches and honor—so that during all your days no man in any kingdom will be your equal.
— 1 Kings 3:13
The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.
— 1 Kings 4:20
Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
— 1 Kings 4:22
ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.
— 1 Kings 4:23
Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.
— 1 Kings 4:25
Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.
— 1 Kings 4:26