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Main Index: Jewish Publication Society 1917 OT

1 Kings 4

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1KINGS 4:1 And king Solomon was king over all Israel.
1KINGS 4:2 And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;
1KINGS 4:3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;
1KINGS 4:4 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
1KINGS 4:5 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister and the king's friend;
1KINGS 4:6 and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy.
1KINGS 4:7 And Solomon 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.
1KINGS 4:8 And these are their names: The son of Hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;
1KINGS 4:9 the son of Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;
1KINGS 4:10 the son of Hesed, in Arubboth; to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher;
1KINGS 4:11 the son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife;
1KINGS 4:12 Baana 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;
1KINGS 4:13 the son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; even to him pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars;
1KINGS 4:14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
1KINGS 4:15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon to wife;
1KINGS 4:16 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
1KINGS 4:17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
1KINGS 4:18 Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
1KINGS 4:19 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 one officer that was over all the officers in the land.
1KINGS 4:20 Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
1KINGS 4:21 (5:1) And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt; they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
1KINGS 4:22 (5:2) And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal;
1KINGS 4:23 (5:3) ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl.
1KINGS 4:24 (5:4) For 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.
1KINGS 4:25 (5:5) 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.
1KINGS 4:26 (5:6) And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
1KINGS 4:27 (5:7) And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.
1KINGS 4:28 (5:8) Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they unto the place where it should be, every man according to his charge.
1KINGS 4:29 (5:9) And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.
1KINGS 4:30 (5:10) And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
1KINGS 4:31 (5:11) 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 the nations round about.
1KINGS 4:32 (5:12) And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.
1KINGS 4:33 (5:13) And he spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
1KINGS 4:34 (5:14) And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.