1 Kings 4:1

King Solomon was king over all Israel.

1 Kings 4:2

These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

1 Kings 4:3

Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;

1 Kings 4:4

and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

1 Kings 4:5

and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, [and] the king's friend;

1 Kings 4:6

and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.

1 Kings 4:7

Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.



1 Kings 4:8

These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

1 Kings 4:9

Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;

1 Kings 4:10

Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him [pertained] Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);

1 Kings 4:11

Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

1 Kings 4:12

Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;

1 Kings 4:13

Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (to him [pertained] the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; [even] to him [pertained] the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);

1 Kings 4:14

Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;



1 Kings 4:15

Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

1 Kings 4:16

Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

1 Kings 4:17

Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

1 Kings 4:18

Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

1 Kings 4:19

Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and [he was] the only officer who was in the land.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

1 Kings 4:21

Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life.



1 Kings 4:22

Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,

1 Kings 4:23

ten head of fat cattle, and twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.

1 Kings 4:24

For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him.

1 Kings 4:25

Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 4:26

Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

1 Kings 4:27

Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.

1 Kings 4:28

Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they to the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his duty.



1 Kings 4:29

God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

1 Kings 4:30

Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1 Kings 4:31

For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around.

1 Kings 4:32

He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five.

1 Kings 4:33

He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.

1 Kings 4:34

There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.


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