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    1Kings 4

    1 King Solomon was king over all Israel.WEB — 1Kings 4:1

    2 These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;WEB — 1Kings 4:2

    3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;WEB — 1Kings 4:3

    4 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;WEB — 1Kings 4:4

    5 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, [and] the king's friend;WEB — 1Kings 4:5

    6 and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.WEB — 1Kings 4:6

    7 Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.WEB — 1Kings 4:7

    8 These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;WEB — 1Kings 4:8

    9 Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;WEB — 1Kings 4:9

    10 Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him [pertained] Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);WEB — 1Kings 4:10

    11 Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife);WEB — 1Kings 4:11

    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;WEB — 1Kings 4:12

    13 Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (to him [pertained] the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; [even] to him [pertained] the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and brazen bars);WEB — 1Kings 4:13

    14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;WEB — 1Kings 4:14

    15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);WEB — 1Kings 4:15

    16 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;WEB — 1Kings 4:16

    17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;WEB — 1Kings 4:17

    18 Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;WEB — 1Kings 4:18

    19 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and [he was] the only officer who was in the land.WEB — 1Kings 4:19

    20 Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.WEB — 1Kings 4:20

    21 Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life.WEB — 1Kings 4:21

    22 Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,WEB — 1Kings 4:22

    23 ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.WEB — 1Kings 4:23

    24 For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides round about him.WEB — 1Kings 4:24

    25 Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.WEB — 1Kings 4:25

    26 Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.WEB — 1Kings 4:26

    27 Those officers provided victuals for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.WEB — 1Kings 4:27

    28 Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they to the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his charge.WEB — 1Kings 4:28

    29 God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.WEB — 1Kings 4:29

    30 Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.WEB — 1Kings 4:30

    31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations round about.WEB — 1Kings 4:31

    32 He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five.WEB — 1Kings 4:32

    33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.WEB — 1Kings 4:33

    34 There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.WEB — 1Kings 4:34

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