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1 Kings, Chapter 4
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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; Jehosaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.
   4: And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the army: 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, who 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 Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan:
   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; who had Taphath the daughter of Solomon for a wife:
   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] to [the place that is] beyond Jokneam:
   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, sixty great cities with walls and brazen bars:
   14: Ahinadab the son of Iddo [had] Mahanaim:
   15: Ahimaaz [was] in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon for a 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 who [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 to the land of the Philistines, and to 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 sixty measures of meal.
   23: Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and roebucks, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowls.
   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 of the river: and he had peace on all sides around him.
   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.
   26: And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
   27: And those officers provided victuals for king Solomon, and for all that came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.
   28: Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries they brought to the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his charge.
   29: And God gave Solomon great wisdom and understanding, 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 the surrounding nations.
   32: And he spoke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.
   33: And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that [is] in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spoke also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping animals, and of fishes.
   34: And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

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