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title: 1 Kings 4
slug: kjv/1-kings-4
createdAt: 2024-08-14T03:20:49.377Z
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**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. **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: **9 **The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan: **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 brasen 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, **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. **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.