The First Book of Kings (WEB)
4:1 King Solomon was king over all Israel. 4:2These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the
son of Zadok, the priest; 4:3Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son
of Ahilud, the recorder; 4:4and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and
Abiathar were priests; 4:5and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of
Nathan was chief minister, and the king's friend; 4:6and Ahishar was over the household; and
Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor. 4:7Solomon 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. 4:8These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country of
Ephraim; 4:9Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;
4:10Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher); 4:11Ben-abinadab,
in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife); 4:12Baana 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; 4:13Ben-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, sixty great cities with walls and brazen bars);
4:14Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; 4:15Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the
daughter of Solomon as wife); 4:16Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; 4:17Jehoshaphat
the son of Paruah, in Issachar; 4:18Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; 4:19Geber 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. 4:20Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by
the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. 4:21Solomon 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. 4:22Solomon's provision for one day was thirty
measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal, 4:23ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the
pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.
4:24For 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. 4:25Judah and
Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba,
all the days of Solomon. 4:26Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and
twelve thousand horsemen. 4:27Those 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. 4:28Barley also
and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they to the place where the officers were, every
man according to his charge. 4:29God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much,
and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore. 4:30Solomon's wisdom
excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. 4:31For 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 round about. 4:32He spoke three thousand proverbs; and
his songs were one thousand five. 4:33He 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. 4:34There 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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