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Bookmark this verse 1Kings 4
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And King Solomon was king over all Israel.
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And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah◦ the son of Zadok the priest;
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Elihoreph and Ahijah, 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 army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests.
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And Azariah◦ the son of Nathan was over the supervisors; and Zabud the son of Nathan the priest was a companion of the king.
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And Ahishar was over the house; and Adoniram the son of Abda over the tribute.
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And Solomon had◦ twelve supervisors over all Israel, and they sustained the king and his house, and a month in the year was upon each one to sustain him.
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And these are their names: Ben-hur in Mount Ephraim;
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Ben-deker in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-chanan;
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Ben-chesed in Arubboth; he had Socoh, and all the land of Hepher;
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Ben-abinadab had all of Naphath Dor; he had◦ Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife;
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Baana the son of Ahilud had Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to◦ Abel-meholah, as··far··as beyond Jokneam;
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Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead; for him were the hamlets of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; for him was the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bars of bronze.
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Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim.
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Ahimaaz in Naphtali, he◦ also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon for a wife;
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Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
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Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
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Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
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Geber the son of Uri was in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon king of the Amorite, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the one supervisor who was in the land.
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Judah and Israel were many, as the sand that is by◦ the sea for multitude, eating and drinking and being glad.
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And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River1 to the land of the Philistines, and even··to the border of Egypt; they presented gift··offerings and served Solomon all the days of his life.
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And the bread of Solomon for one day was thirty cor2 of flour and sixty cor of meal,
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ten well-nourished cattle and twenty cattle of the pasture and a hundred animals of the flock, besides◦ stag and roedeer and fallow··deer and fattened◦ chickens.
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For he◦ had··dominion over every crossing of the River, from Tiphsah and even··to Gaza, over all the kings across the River; and he had◦ peace from all the crossings all around him.
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And Judah and Israel dwelt securely, every man◦ under his vine and under his fig··tree, from Dan and even··to Beer-sheba, 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 these supervisors sustained King Solomon and all who drew··near unto▵ the table of King Solomon, a man◦ for his month; there was not a thing lacking.
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And the barley and the straw for the horses and the racers brought they to▵ the place where he was, each··man◦ according··to his manner◦.
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And God gave wisdom to Solomon and an understanding exceedingly multiplied, and breadth of heart as the sand that is by the lip of the sea.
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And the wisdom of Solomon was multiplied more than the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and more than all the wisdom of Egypt.
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And he was··wiser than any man, than Ethan the Ezrachite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his name was in all the nations all around.
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And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were five and a thousand.
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And he spoke of the trees, from the cedar which is in Lebanon, and even··to the hyssop that comes··out in the wall◦; and he spoke of the beast, and of the fowl, and of the creeping thing, and of the fish.
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And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who heard his wisdom.
1the Euphrates (see AC 120, 9341, AE 654:12)
2“A cor contained ten baths” (AC 10262:4).
