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1 Kings 4:25
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator describes Solomon’s reign while detailing the territorial extent of his kingdom and the subsequent inventory of his military assets.
The words — The Hebrew לָ/בֶ֗טַח (la./Ve.tach) literally means “to security,” and תַּ֤חַת (Ta.chat) literally means “under,” framing the physical and political posture of the people.
The thread — The image of sitting under one’s own vine and fig tree reappears in Micah 4:4 and Zechariah 3:10 to describe future peace, while the geographic marker “from Dan to Beersheba” appears in Judges 20:1 to denote the full span of Israelite territory.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that political dominion and personal agricultural stability are presented as simultaneous realities in Solomon’s era, requiring the reader to track how national peace directly enables individual domestic security.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, all the days of Solomon.
Cross-references
- Micah 4:4 And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.
- Zechariah 3:10 On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, you will each invite your neighbor to sit under your own vine and fig tree.’”
- Judges 20:1 Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.
- 2 Kings 18:31 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,
- Jeremiah 23:5 Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
- Jeremiah 33:15 In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch, and He will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
- 2 Samuel 17:11 Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beersheba—a multitude like the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, and that you yourself lead them into battle.
- 2 Samuel 24:15 So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
- Isaiah 60:18 No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
- Ezekiel 38:11 You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a quiet people who dwell securely, all of them living without walls or bars or gates—