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1 Kings 4
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- So king Solomon was king over all Israel.
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- And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son
of Zadok the priest,
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- Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes;
Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.
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- And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and
Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
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- And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and
Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king's friend:
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- And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son
of Abda was over the tribute.
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- 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.
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- And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount
Ephraim:
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- The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and
Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan:
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- The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh,
and all the land of Hepher:
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- The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had
Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
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- Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and
Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from
Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam:
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- The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; 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:
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- Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:
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- Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the
daughter of Solomon to wife:
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- Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:
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- Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
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- Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:
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- 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.
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- Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the
sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
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- 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.
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- And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures
of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
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- Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and
an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
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- 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.
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- And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his
vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of
Solomon.
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- And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his
chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
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- 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.
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- Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries
brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to
his charge.
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- And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding
much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
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- And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the
children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
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- 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.
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- And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were
a thousand and five.
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- 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.
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- 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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