web@1Kings:4:2 @These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;
web@1Kings:4:3 @Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;
web@1Kings:4:4 @and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
web@1Kings:4:5 @and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, the king's friend;
web@1Kings:4:6 @and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.
web@1Kings: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.
web@1Kings:4:8 @These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
web@1Kings:4:9 @Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;
web@1Kings:4:10 @Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him belonged Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);
web@1Kings:4:11 @Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife);
web@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;
web@1Kings:4:13 @Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (to him belonged the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him belonged the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
web@1Kings:4:15 @Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);
web@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 who was in the land.
web@1Kings:4:20 @Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
web@1Kings: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.
web@1Kings:4:22 @Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,
web@1Kings: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.
web@1Kings:4:24 @For he had dominion over all 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.
web@1Kings: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.
web@1Kings:4:26 @Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
web@1Kings: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.
web@1Kings: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.
web@1Kings:4:29 @God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.
web@1Kings:4:30 @Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
web@1Kings: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.
web@1Kings:4:32 @He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five.
web@1Kings: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.
web@1Kings: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.