Solomon's princes and officers
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First Kings 4:1 |
So king Solomon was king over all Israel. |
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First Kings 4:2 |
And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest, |
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First Kings 4:3 |
Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder. |
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First Kings 4:4 |
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests: |
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First Kings 4:5 |
And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king's friend: |
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First Kings 4:6 |
And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute. |
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First Kings 4:7 |
¶ 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. |
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First Kings 4:8 |
And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: |
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First Kings 4:9 |
The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan: |
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First Kings 4:10 |
The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher: |
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First Kings 4:11 |
The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife: |
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First Kings 4:12 |
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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First Kings 4:13 |
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 brasen bars: |
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First Kings 4:14 |
Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim: |
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First Kings 4:15 |
Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife: |
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First Kings 4:16 |
Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth: |
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First Kings 4:17 |
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar: |
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First Kings 4:18 |
Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin: |
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First Kings 4:19 |
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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First Kings 4:20 |
¶ 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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First Kings 4:21 |
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. |
Solomon's daily provision
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First Kings 4:22 |
¶ And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, |
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First Kings 4:23 |
Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl. |
Solomon's greatness and wisdom
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First Kings 4:24 |
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. |
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First Kings 4:25 |
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. |
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First Kings 4:26 |
¶ And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. |
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First Kings 4:27 |
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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First Kings 4:28 |
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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First Kings 4:29 |
¶ And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. |
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First Kings 4:30 |
And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt. |
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First Kings 4:31 |
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. |
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First Kings 4:32 |
And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. |
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First Kings 4:33 |
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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First Kings 4:34 |
And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom. |
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