41 Kings 4

1So king Solomon was king over all Israel.Select 1 Kings 4:1

2And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,Select 1 Kings 4:2

3Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.Select 1 Kings 4:3

4And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:Select 1 Kings 4:4

5And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king’s friend:Select 1 Kings 4:5

6And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute. ¶Select 1 Kings 4:6

7And 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.Select 1 Kings 4:7

8And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:Select 1 Kings 4:8

9The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan:Select 1 Kings 4:9

10The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:Select 1 Kings 4:10

11The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:Select 1 Kings 4:11

12Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even to the place that is beyond Jokneam:Select 1 Kings 4:12

13The 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, three score great cities with walls and brazen bars:Select 1 Kings 4:13

14Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:Select 1 Kings 4:14

15Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife:Select 1 Kings 4:15

16Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:Select 1 Kings 4:16

17Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:Select 1 Kings 4:17

18Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:Select 1 Kings 4:18

19Geber 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. ¶Select 1 Kings 4:19

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

21And 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. ¶Select 1 Kings 4:21

22And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and three score measures of meal,Select 1 Kings 4:22

23Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallow deer, and fatted fowl.Select 1 Kings 4:23

24For 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.Select 1 Kings 4:24

25And Judah and Israel dwelled safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. ¶Select 1 Kings 4:25

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

27And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came to king Solomon’s table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.Select 1 Kings 4:27

28Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they to the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge. ¶Select 1 Kings 4:28

29And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.Select 1 Kings 4:29

30And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.Select 1 Kings 4:30

31For 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.Select 1 Kings 4:31

32And he spoke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.Select 1 Kings 4:32

33And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall: he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.Select 1 Kings 4:33

34And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.Select 1 Kings 4:34