Lexicon :: Strong's H2344 - ḥôl

“They will call the peoples to the mountain (Mount Carmel);

There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness;

For they will draw out the abundance of the seas,

And the hidden treasures of the sand.”

Now the Philistines gathered to fight against Israel, 30,000 chariots and 6,000 horsemen, and troops in multitude, like sand on the seashore. They came up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

[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.

Now God gave Solomon [exceptional] wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of mind, like the sand of the seashore.

“For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea;

Therefore my words have been incoherent,

“Then I said, ‘I shall die in my nest,

And I shall multiply my days as the sand.

He rained meat upon them like the dust,

And winged birds (quail) like the sand of the seas.

If I could count them, they would outnumber the sand.

When I awake, I am still with You.

Stone is heavy and the sand weighty,

But a fool’s [unreasonable] wrath is heavier and more burdensome than both of them.

For though your people, O Israel, may be as the sand of the sea,

Only a remnant within them will return;

The destruction is determined [it is decided and destined for completion], overflowing with justice (righteous punishment).

“Your offspring would have been like the sand,

And your descendants [in number] like the grains of sand;

Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence.”

‘Do you not fear Me?’ says the LORD.

‘Do you not tremble [in awe] in My presence?

For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,

An eternal decree and a perpetual barrier beyond which it cannot pass.

Though the waves [of the sea] toss and break, yet they cannot prevail [against the sand ordained to hold them back];

Though the waves and the billows roar, yet they cannot cross over [the barrier].

[Is not such a God to be feared?]

“I will make their widows more numerous before Me

Than the sand of the seas;

I will bring against them, against the mother of the young men,

A [fn]destroyer at noonday;

I will suddenly cause anguish and terror

To fall on her.

Yet the number of the [fn]sons of Israel

Shall be like the sand of the sea,

Which cannot be measured or numbered;

And in the place

Where it is said to them,

“You are not My people,”

It will be said to them,

“You are the sons of the living God.”

“They all come for violence;

Their horde of faces moves [eagerly] forward,

They gather prisoners like sand.