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{1st Kings 4:1} So king Solomon was king over all Israel. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:2} And these [were] the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest, ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:3} Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:4} And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar [were] the priests: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st 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: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:6} And Ahishar [was] over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda [was] over the tribute. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:8} And these [are] their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:9} The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth- shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:10} The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him [pertained] Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:11} The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:12} Baana the son of Ahilud; [to him pertained] Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, [even] unto [the place that is] beyond Jokneam: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:13} The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; 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: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:14} Ahinadab the son of Iddo [had] Mahanaim: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:15} Ahimaaz [was] in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:16} Baanah the son of Hushai [was] in Asher and in Aloth: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:17} Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:18} Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin: ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:20} Judah and Israel [were] many, as the sand which [is] by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:22} And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:25} And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:26} And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:30} And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st Kings 4:32} And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{1st 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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