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Chapter 4 |
| 1 | So king
Solomon was king over all Israel. |
| 2 | And these were the princes
which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest, |
| 3 | Elihoreph and
Ahiah, 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 host: and
Zadok and Abiathar were the priests: |
| 5 | And Azariah the son of Nathan
was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and
the king's friend: |
| 6 | And Ahishar was over the household: and
Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute. |
| 7 | And Solomon
had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and
his household: each man his month in a year made provision. |
| 8 | And these
are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: |
| 9 | The son of
Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan:
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| 10 | The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land
of Hepher: |
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| The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had
Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife: |
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12 | Baana the son of Ahilud;
to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah
beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even unto the place that is
beyond Jokneam: |
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13 | The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained
the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also
pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with
walls and brazen bars: |
| 14 | Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:
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| 15 | Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to
wife: |
| 16 |
Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth: |
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Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar: |
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18 | Shimei the son of Elah,
in Benjamin: |
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19 | 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 which was in the land. |
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20 | Judah and Israel were
many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and
making merry. |
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21 | And Solomon reigned over all 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. |
| 22 | And
Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and
threescore measures of meal, |
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23 | Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of
the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer,
and fatted fowl. |
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24 | For he had dominion over all the region on this
side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the
river: and he had peace on all sides round about him. |
| 25 | And Judah
and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from
Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. |
| 26 | And Solomon
had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand
horsemen. |
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| And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and
for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they
lacked nothing. |
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28 | Barley also and straw for the horses and
dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man
according to his charge. |
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29 | And God gave Solomon wisdom and
understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is
on the sea shore. |
| 30 | And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of
all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt. |
| 31 |
For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol,
and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round
about. |
| 32
| And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were
a thousand and five. |
| 33 | And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree
that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he
spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
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| 34 | And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all
kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom. |
