nkjv 1Kings:4 SEEK
Seeker Overlay ON
*
So King Solomon was king over all Israel .
*
And these were his officials :
Azariah the son of Zadok ,
the priest ;
*
Elihoreph and Ahijah ,
the sons of Shisha ,
scribes ;
Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud ,
the recorder ;
*
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
over the army ;
Zadok and Abiathar ,
the priests ;
*
Azariah the son of Nathan ,
over the officers ;
Zabud the son of Nathan ,
a priest and the king '
s friend ;
*
Ahishar ,
over the household ;
and Adoniram the son of Abda ,
over the labor force .
*
And Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel ,
who provided food for the king and his household ;
each one made provision for one month of the year .
*
These are their names :
Ben-Hur ,
in the mountains of Ephraim ;
*
Ben-Deker ,
in Makaz ,
Shaalbim ,
Beth Shemesh ,
and Elon Beth Hanan ;
*
Ben-Hesed ,
in Arubboth ;
to him belonged Sochoh and all the land of Hepher ;
*
Ben-Abinadab ,
in all the regions of Dor ;
he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife ;
*
Baana the son of Ahilud ,
in Taanach ,
Megiddo ,
and all Beth Shean ,
which is beside Zaretan below Jezreel ,
from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah ,
as far as the other side of Jokneam ;
*
Ben-Geber ,
in Ramoth Gilead ;
to him belonged the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh ,
in Gilead ;
to him also belonged the region of Argob in Bashan--sixty large cities with walls and bronze gate-bars ;
*
Ahinadab the son of Iddo ,
in Mahanaim ;
*
Ahimaaz ,
in Naphtali ;
he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife ;
*
Baanah the son of Hushai ,
in Asher and Aloth ;
*
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah ,
in Issachar ;
*
Shimei the son of Elah ,
in Benjamin ;
*
Geber the son of Uri ,
in the land of Gilead ,
in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites ,
and of Og king of Bashan .
He was the only governor who was in the land .
*
Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea in multitude ,
eating and drinking and rejoicing .
*
So Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines ,
as far as the border of Egypt .
They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life .
*
Now Solomon '
s provision for one day was thirty kors of fine flour ,
sixty kors of meal ,
*
ten fatted oxen ,
twenty oxen from the pastures ,
and one hundred sheep ,
besides deer ,
gazelles ,
roebucks ,
and fatted fowl .
*
For he had dominion over all the region on this side of the River from Tiphsah even to Gaza ,
namely over all the kings on this side of the River ;
and he had peace on every side all around him .
*
And Judah and Israel dwelt safely ,
each man under his vine and his fig tree ,
from Dan as far as Beersheba ,
all the days of Solomon .
*
Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots ,
and twelve thousand horsemen .
*
And these governors ,
each man in his month ,
provided food for King Solomon and for all who came to King Solomon '
s table .
There was no lack in their supply .
*
They also brought barley and straw to the proper place ,
for the horses and steeds ,
each man according to his charge .
*
And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great understanding ,
and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore .
*
Thus Solomon '
s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the men of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt .
*
For he was wiser than all men--than Ethan the Ezrahite ,
and Heman ,
Chalcol ,
and Darda ,
the sons of Mahol ;
and his fame was in all the surrounding nations .
*
He spoke three thousand proverbs ,
and his songs were one thousand and five .
*
Also he spoke of trees ,
from the cedar tree of Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall ;
he spoke also of animals ,
of birds ,
of creeping things ,
and of fish .
*
And men of all nations ,
from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom ,
came to hear the wisdom of Solomon .