<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1009020">1 Kings</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1009151">Chapter 4</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1009122">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1009186">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>King Solomon</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009152">1</a>. SO king Solomon was king over all Israel.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009153">2</a>. And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009154">3</a>. Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009155">4</a>. And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009156">5</a>. And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king's friend:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009157">6</a>. And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009158">7</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009159">8</a>. And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009160">9</a>. The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009161">10</a>. The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009162">11</a>. The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009163">12</a>. 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:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009164">13</a>. 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:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009165">14</a>. Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009166">15</a>. Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009167">16</a>. Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009168">17</a>. Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009169">18</a>. Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009170">19</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009171">20</a>. Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009172">21</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009173">22</a>. And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009174">23</a>. Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009175">24</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009176">25</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009177">26</a>. And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009178">27</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009179">28</a>. Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009180">29</a>. And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009181">30</a>. And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009182">31</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009183">32</a>. And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009184">33</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1009185">34</a>. And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.</li>
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