| 1 Kings 4:1 |
Now King Solomon was king over all Israel. |
| 1 Kings 4:2 |
And these were the officials with him: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest; |
| 1 Kings 4:3 |
Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder; |
| 1 Kings 4:4 |
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were [high] priests; |
| 1 Kings 4:5 |
And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the superintendents; and Zabud the son of Nathan was the principal officer, the king's friend; |
| 1 Kings 4:6 |
And Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the forced labor. |
| 1 Kings 4:7 |
And Solomon had twelve superintendents over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his house; each month of the year one had to provide food. |
| 1 Kings 4:8 |
And these are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim; |
| 1 Kings 4:9 |
Ben-deker, in Makaz and in Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elon-beth-hanan; |
| 1 Kings 4:10 |
Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him [pertained] Socoh and all the land of Hepher); |
| 1 Kings 4:11 |
Ben-abinadab, [in] all the highland of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as [his] wife); |
| 1 Kings 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; |
| 1 Kings 4:13 |
Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (to him [pertained] the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; [and] to him [pertained] the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars); |
| 1 Kings 4:14 |
Ahinadab the son of Iddo, [in] Mahanaim; |
| 1 Kings 4:15 |
Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as [his] wife); |
| 1 Kings 4:16 |
Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; |
| 1 Kings 4:17 |
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; |
| 1 Kings 4:18 |
Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; |
| 1 Kings 4:19 |
Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites and Og the king of Bashan (and there was [only] one superintendent in that land). |
| 1 Kings 4:20 |
Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing. |
| 1 Kings 4:21 |
And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines and unto the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life. |
| 1 Kings 4:22 |
And Solomon's provisions for one day were thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of meal, |
| 1 Kings 4:23 |
Ten fattened oxen and twenty pastured oxen and a hundred sheep, besides deer and gazelles and roebucks and fattened fowl. |
| 1 Kings 4:24 |
For he had dominion over all [the area] west of the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings west of the River; and he had peace on all sides around him. |
| 1 Kings 4:25 |
And Judah and Israel dwelt securely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan to Beer-sheba, throughout all Solomon's days. |
| 1 Kings 4:26 |
And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots and twelve thousand horsemen. |
| 1 Kings 4:27 |
And those superintendents provided food for King Solomon and for all who came to King Solomon's table, each in his month; they left nothing lacking. |
| 1 Kings 4:28 |
And they also brought to the place where it should be, barley and straw for the horses and steeds, each according to his charge. |
| 1 Kings 4:29 |
And God gave Solomon wisdom and very much understanding and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the seashore. |
| 1 Kings 4:30 |
And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt. |
| 1 Kings 4:31 |
For he became wiser than all men, [wiser] than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame was among all the surrounding nations. |
| 1 Kings 4:32 |
And he spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five. |
| 1 Kings 4:33 |
And he discoursed about trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that shoots forth out of the wall; he also discoursed about animals and about birds and about creeping things and about fish. |
| 1 Kings 4:34 |
And they came from all the peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom. |