4:1 |
King Solomon was king over all Israel. |
4:2 |
These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest; |
4:3 |
Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder; |
4:4 |
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 officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, [and] the king's friend; |
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and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor. |
4:7 |
Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year. |
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These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim; |
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Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan; |
4:10 |
Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him [pertained] Socoh, and all the land of Hepher); |
4:11 |
Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife); |
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; |
4:13 |
Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (to him [pertained] the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; [even] to him [pertained] the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars); |
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Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; |
4:15 |
Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife); |
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Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; |
4:17 |
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; |
4:18 |
Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; |
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 [he was] the only officer who was in the land. |
4:20 |
Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. |
4:21 |
Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the 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. |
4:22 |
Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal, |
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ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl. |
4:24 |
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. |
4:25 |
Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. |
4:26 |
Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. |
4:27 |
Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking. |
4:28 |
Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they to the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his charge. |
4:29 |
God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore. |
4:30 |
Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. |
4:31 |
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. |
4:32 |
He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five. |
4:33 |
He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish. |
4:34 |
There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom. |