| Chapter
4 |
| 1 | So king
Solomon was king over all Israel. |
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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. |
| 4 | 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: |
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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: |
| 11 |
The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter
of Solomon to wife: |
| 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: |
| 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: |
| 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: |
| 17 | Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar: |
| 18 | Shimei the son of Elah, in
Benjamin: |
| 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. |
| 20 | Judah and
Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and
drinking, and making merry. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 27 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
