1 Kings 4
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1 Kings 4:1
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Now King Solomon was king over all Israel.
1 Kings 4:2
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These were his officials: Azariah the son of Zadok {was} the priest;
1 Kings 4:3
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Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha {were} secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud {was} the recorder;
1 Kings 4:4
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and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada {was} over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar {were} priests;
1 Kings 4:5
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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
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and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda {was} over the men subject to forced labor.
1 Kings 4:7
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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
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These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
1 Kings 4:9
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Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;
1 Kings 4:11
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Ben-abinadab, {in} all the height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);
1 Kings 4:12
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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
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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
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Ahinadab the son of Iddo, {in} Mahanaim;
1 Kings 4:15
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Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon);
1 Kings 4:16
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Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
1 Kings 4:17
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Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
1 Kings 4:18
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Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
1 Kings 4:19
1 Kings 4:20
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Judah and Israel {were} as numerous as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance; {they} were eating and drinking and rejoicing.
1 Kings 4:21
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Now Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the (I.e. Euphrates) 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.
1 Kings 4:22
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Solomon's provision for one day was thirty (I.e. One kor equals approx 10 bu) kors of fine flour and sixty kors of meal,
1 Kings 4:23
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ten fat oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, a hundred sheep besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.
1 Kings 4:24
1 Kings 4:25
1 Kings 4:26
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Solomon had (One ms reads {4000,} cf 2 Chr 9:25) 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.
1 Kings 4:27
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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
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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
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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
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Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
1 Kings 4:31
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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
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He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005.
1 Kings 4:33
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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.
1 Kings 4:34
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Men came from all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.
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