Thematic Bible
1 Kings 4:1 (show verse)
Now King Solomon was king over all Israel.
1 Kings 4:2 (show verse)
These were his officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest;
1 Kings 4:3 (show verse)
Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;
1 Kings 4:4 (show verse)
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
1 Kings 4:5 (show verse)
and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the deputies; and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, was 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 men subject to forced labor.
1 Kings 4:7 (show verse)
Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, who provided for the king and his household; each man had to provide for a month in the year.
1 Kings 4:8 (show verse)
These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
1 Kings 4:9 (show verse)
Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;
1 Kings 4:10 (show verse)
Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh was his and all the land of Hepher);
1 Kings 4:11 (show verse)
Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);
1 Kings 4:12 (show verse)
Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah as far as the other side of Jokmeam;
1 Kings 4:13 (show verse)
Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead were his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);
1 Kings 4:14 (show verse)
Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
1 Kings 4:15 (show verse)
1 Kings 4:16 (show verse)
Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
1 Kings 4:17 (show verse)
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
1 Kings 4:18 (show verse)
1 Kings 4:19 (show verse)
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 deputy who was in the land.
1 Kings 4:20 (show verse)
1 Kings 4:21 (show verse)
1 Kings 4:22 (show verse)
Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty kors of fine flour and sixty kors of meal,
1 Kings 4:23 (show verse)
ten fat oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, a hundred sheep besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.
1 Kings 4:24 (show verse)
For he had dominion over everything west of the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings west of the River; and he had peace on all sides around about him.
1 Kings 4:25 (show verse)
1 Kings 4:26 (show verse)
1 Kings 4:27 (show verse)
Those deputies provided for King Solomon and all who came to King Solomon’s table, each in his month; they left nothing lacking.
1 Kings 4:28 (show verse)
They also brought barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where it should be, each according to his charge.
1 Kings 4:29 (show verse)
Now God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of mind, like the sand that is on the seashore.
1 Kings 4:30 (show verse)
Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
1 Kings 4:31 (show verse)
For he was wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was known in all the surrounding nations.
1 Kings 4:32 (show verse)
1 Kings 4:33 (show verse)
He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he spoke also of animals and birds and creeping things and fish.