1Kings 4




updv@1Kings:4:1 @ And King Solomon was king over all Israel.

updv@1Kings:4:2 @ And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

updv@1Kings:4:3 @ Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;

updv@1Kings:4:4 @ and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

updv@1Kings:4:5 @ and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief ruler, [and] the king's friend;

updv@1Kings:4:6 @ and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to slave labor.

updv@1Kings:4:7 @ And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

updv@1Kings:4:8 @ And these are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;

updv@1Kings:4:9 @ Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;

updv@1Kings:4:10 @ Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him [pertained] Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);

updv@1Kings:4:11 @ Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

updv@1Kings: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;

updv@1Kings: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, threescore great cities with walls and bronze bars);

updv@1Kings:4:14 @ Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

updv@1Kings:4:15 @ Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

updv@1Kings:4:16 @ Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

updv@1Kings:4:17 @ Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

updv@1Kings:4:18 @ Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

updv@1Kings: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 that was in the land.

updv@1Kings:4:20 @ Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

updv@1Kings:4:21 @ And 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.

updv@1Kings:4:22 @ And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, and threescore cors of meal,

updv@1Kings:4:23 @ ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl.

updv@1Kings: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 round about him.

updv@1Kings:4:25 @ 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.

updv@1Kings:4:26 @ And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

updv@1Kings:4:27 @ And those officers provided victuals for King Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.

updv@1Kings:4:28 @ Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds they brought to the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his charge.

updv@1Kings:4:29 @ And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceedingly much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

updv@1Kings:4:30 @ And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

updv@1Kings:4:31 @ For he was wiser than all of man; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations round about.

updv@1Kings:4:32 @ And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.

updv@1Kings:4:33 @ And 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 beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.

updv@1Kings:4:34 @ And 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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