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| 4:1 |
Now King Solomon was king over all Israel.
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| 4:2 |
These were his officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest;
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| 4:3 |
Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;
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| 4:4 |
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
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| 4:5 |
and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the deputies; and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, was the king's friend;
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| 4:6 |
and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.
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| 4:7 |
Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, who provided for the king and his household; each man had to provide for a month in the year.
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| 4:8 |
These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
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| 4:9 |
Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;
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| 4:10 |
Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh was his and all the land of Hepher);
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| 4:11 |
Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);
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| 4:12 |
Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah as far as the other side of Jokmeam;
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| 4:13 |
Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead were his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);
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| 4:14 |
Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
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| 4:15 |
Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon);
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| 4:16 |
Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
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| 4:17 |
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
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| 4:18 |
Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
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| 4:19 |
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 deputy who was in the land.
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| 4:20 |
Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance; they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.
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| 4:21 |
Now 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.
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| 4:22 |
Solomon's provision for one day was thirty kors of fine flour and sixty kors of meal,
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| 4:23 |
ten fat oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, a hundred sheep besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.
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| 4:24 |
For he had dominion over everything west of the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings west of the River; and he had peace on all sides around about him.
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| 4:25 |
So Judah and Israel lived in safety, every man under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
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| 4:26 |
Solomon had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.
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| 4:27 |
Those deputies provided for King Solomon and all who came to King Solomon's table, each in his month; they left nothing lacking.
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| 4:28 |
They also brought barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where it should be, each according to his charge.
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| 4:29 |
Now God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of mind, like the sand that is on the seashore.
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| 4:30 |
Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
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| 4:31 |
For he was wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was known in all the surrounding nations.
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| 4:32 |
He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005.
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| 4:33 |
He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he spoke also of animals and birds and creeping things and fish.
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| 4:34 |
Men came from all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.
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