1 Kings 4

So king Solomon was king over all Israel. ²And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest, ³Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of ^aShisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder. ⁴And ^bBenaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and ^cAbiathar were the priests: ⁵and Azariah the son of Nathan was over ^dthe officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was ^eprincipal officer, and ^fthe king’s friend: ⁶and Ahishar was over the household: and ^gAdoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute. ⁷And Solomon had twelve ^dofficers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision. ⁸And these are their names: The son of Hur, in ^hmount Ephraim: ⁹the son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in ⁱShaalbim, and ^jBeth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan: ¹⁰the son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained ^kSochoh, and all the land of ^lHepher: ¹¹the son of Abinadab, in all ^mthe region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife: ¹²Baana the son of ⁿAhilud; to him pertained ^oTaanach and ^oMegiddo, and all ^pBeth-shean, which is by ^qZartanah beneath ^rJezreel, from ^pBeth-shean to ^sAbel-meholah, even unto the place that is beyond ^tJokneam: ¹³the son of Geber, in ^uRamoth-gilead; to him pertained ^vthe towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained ^wthe region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities ^wwith walls and brasen bars: ¹⁴Ahinadab the son of ^xIddo had Mahanaim: ^15yAhimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife: ¹⁶Baanah the son of ^zHushai was in Asher and in Aloth: ¹⁷Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar: ^18aShimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin: ¹⁹Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in ^bthe country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land. ²⁰Judah and Israel were many, ^cas the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.

²¹And ^dSolomon reigned over all kingdoms from ^ethe river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: ^fthey brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life. ²²And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, ²³ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside ^gharts, and ^groebucks, and ^hfallowdeer, and fatted fowl. ²⁴For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from ⁱTiphsah even to ^jAzzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and ^khe had peace on all sides round about him. ²⁵And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, ^levery man under his vine and under his fig tree, ^mfrom Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon. ²⁶And Solomon had ⁿforty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. ²⁷And those ^oofficers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon’s table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing. ²⁸Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.

²⁹And ^pGod gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even ^qas the sand that is on the sea shore. ³⁰And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all ^rthe children of the east country, and all ^sthe wisdom of Egypt. ³¹For he was ^twiser than all men; ^uthan Ethan the ^vEzrahite, and ^wHeman, and ^xChalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about. ³²And ^yhe spake three thousand proverbs: and his ^zsongs were a thousand and five. ³³And he spake of trees, from ^athe cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto ^bthe hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. ³⁴And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from ^call kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.

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