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1 Kings 4:1 (show verse)

So king Solomon was king over all Israel.

1 Kings 4:2 (show verse)

And these were the princes whom he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,

1 Kings 4:3 (show verse)

Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.

1 Kings 4:4 (show verse)

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:

1 Kings 4:5 (show verse)

And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was priest, and the king's friend:

1 Kings 4:6 (show verse)

And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the forced labor.

1 Kings 4:7 (show verse)

And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.

1 Kings 4:8 (show verse)

And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:

1 Kings 4:9 (show verse)

The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan:

1 Kings 4:10 (show verse)

The son of Hesed, in Arubboth; to him belonged Socoh, and all the land of Hepher:

1 Kings 4:11 (show verse)

The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; who had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as his wife:

1 Kings 4:12 (show verse)

Baana the son of Ahilud; in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokmeam:

1 Kings 4:13 (show verse)

The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him belonged the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also belonged the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and bronze bars:

1 Kings 4:14 (show verse)

Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:

1 Kings 4:15 (show verse)

Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as his wife:

1 Kings 4:16 (show verse)

Baana the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:

1 Kings 4:17 (show verse)

Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:

1 Kings 4:18 (show verse)

Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin:

1 Kings 4:19 (show verse)

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 who was in the land.

1 Kings 4:20 (show verse)

Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and rejoicing.

1 Kings 4:21 (show verse)

And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life.

1 Kings 4:22 (show verse)

And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, and threescore cors of meal,

1 Kings 4:23 (show verse)

Ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl.

1 Kings 4:24 (show verse)

For he had dominion over all the region on this side of the river, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side of the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.

1 Kings 4:25 (show verse)

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.

1 Kings 4:26 (show verse)

And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

1 Kings 4:27 (show verse)

And those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.

1 Kings 4:28 (show verse)

Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.

1 Kings 4:29 (show verse)

And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great understanding, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

1 Kings 4:30 (show verse)

And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1 Kings 4:31 (show verse)

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 nations round about.

1 Kings 4:32 (show verse)

And he spoke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.

1 Kings 4:33 (show verse)

And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springs out of the wall: he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

1 Kings 4:34 (show verse)

And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.