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So king Solomon was king over all Israel .
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And these were the princes which he had ;
Azariah the son of Zadok the priest ,
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Elihoreph and Ahiah ,
the sons of Shisha ,
scribes ;
Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud ,
the recorder .
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And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host :
and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests :
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And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers :
and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer ,
and the king '
s friend :
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And Ahishar was over the household :
and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute .
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And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel ,
which provided victuals for the king and his household :
each man his month in a year made provision .
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And these are their names :
The son of Hur ,
in mount Ephraim :
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The son of Dekar ,
in Makaz ,
and in Shaalbim ,
and Bethshemesh ,
and Elonbethhanan :
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The son of Hesed ,
in Aruboth ;
to him pertained Sochoh ,
and all the land of Hepher :
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The son of Abinadab ,
in all the region of Dor ;
which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife :
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Baana the son of Ahilud ;
to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo ,
and all Bethshean ,
which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel ,
from Bethshean to Abelmeholah ,
even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam :
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The son of Geber ,
in Ramothgilead ;
to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh ,
which are in Gilead ;
to him also pertained the region of Argob ,
which is in Bashan ,
threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars :
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Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim :
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Ahimaaz was in Naphtali ;
he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife :
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Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth :
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Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah ,
in Issachar :
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Shimei the son of Elah ,
in Benjamin :
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Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead ,
in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites ,
and of Og king of Bashan ;
and he was the only officer which was in the land .
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Judah and Israel were many ,
as the sand which is by the sea in multitude ,
eating and drinking ,
and making merry .
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And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines ,
and unto the border of Egypt :
they brought presents ,
and served Solomon all the days of his life .
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And Solomon '
s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour ,
and threescore measures of meal ,
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Ten fat oxen ,
and twenty oxen out of the pastures ,
and an hundred sheep ,
beside harts ,
and roebucks ,
and fallowdeer ,
and fatted fowl .
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For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river ,
from Tiphsah even to Azzah ,
over all the kings on this side the river :
and he had peace on all sides round about him .
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And Judah and Israel dwelt safely ,
every man under his vine and under his fig tree ,
from Dan even to Beersheba ,
all the days of Solomon .
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And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots ,
and twelve thousand horsemen .
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And those officers provided victual for king Solomon ,
and for all that came unto king Solomon '
s table ,
every man in his month :
they lacked nothing .
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Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were ,
every man according to his charge .
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And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much ,
and largeness of heart ,
even as the sand that is on the sea shore .
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And Solomon '
s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country ,
and all the wisdom of Egypt .
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For he was wiser than all men ;
than Ethan the Ezrahite ,
and Heman ,
and Chalcol ,
and Darda ,
the sons of Mahol :
and his fame was in all nations round about .
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And he spake three thousand proverbs :
and his songs were a thousand and five .
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And he spake of trees ,
from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall :
he spake also of beasts ,
and of fowl ,
and of creeping things ,
and of fishes .
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And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon ,
from all kings of the earth ,
which had heard of his wisdom .