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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Kings 4 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_kings/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_kings/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</a> > 1 Kings 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_kings/3.htm" title="1 Kings 3">◄</a> 1 Kings 4 <a href="../1_kings/5.htm" title="1 Kings 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/1_kings/4-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And King Solomon is king over all Israel, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and these [are] the heads whom he has: Azariah son of Zadok [is] the priest; <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Elihoreph and Ahiah sons of Shisha [are] scribes; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud [is] remembrancer; <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and Benaiah son of Jehoiada [is] over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar [are] priests; <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and Azariah son of Nathan [is] over the officers; and Zabud son of Nathan [is] minister, friend of the king; <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and Ahishar [is] over the household, and Adoniram son of Abda [is] over the tribute.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And Solomon has twelve officers over all Israel, and they have sustained the king and his household—a month in the year is on each one for sustenance; <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and these [are] their names: Ben-Hur in the hill-country of Ephraim; <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Ben-Dekar in Makaz, and Shaalbim, and Beth-Shemesh, and Elon-Beth-Hanan; <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Ben-Hesed, in Aruboth, has Sochoh and all the land of Hepher; <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Ben-Abinadab [has] all the elevation of Dor; Taphath daughter of Solomon became his wife; <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Baana Ben-Ahilud [has] Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-Shean, which [is] by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-Shean to Abel-Meholah, to beyond Jokneam; <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Ben-Geber, in Ramoth-Gilead, has the small towns of Jair son of Manasseh, which [are] in Gilead; he has a portion of Argob that [is] in Bashan—sixty great cities [with] wall and bronze bar; <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Ahinadab son of Iddo [has] Mahanaim; <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Ahimaaz [is] in Naphtali; he also has taken Basemath daughter of Solomon for a wife; <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Baanah Ben-Hushai [is] in Asher, and in Aloth; <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Jehoshaphat Ben-Paruah [is] in Issachar; <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Shimei Ben-Elah [is] in Benjamin; <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Geber Ben-Uri [is] in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon king of the Amorite, and of Og king of Bashan: and [he is] the one officer who [is] in the land.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Judah and Israel [are] many, as the sand that [is] by the sea for multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Solomon has been ruling over all the kingdoms, from the River [to] the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt: they are bringing a present near, and serving Solomon, all [the] days of his life.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And the provision of Solomon for one day is thirty cors of flour, and sixty cors of meal, <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>ten fat oxen, and twenty feeding oxen, and one hundred sheep, apart from deer, and roe, and fallow-deer, and fatted beasts of the stalls, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>for he is ruling over all beyond the river, from Tiphsah and to Gaza, over all the kings beyond the River, and he has peace from all his surrounding servants. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Judah dwells—and Israel—in confidence, each under his vine, and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-Sheba, all the days of Solomon. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And Solomon has forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And these officers have sustained King Solomon and everyone drawing near to the table of King Solomon, each [in] his month; they let nothing be lacking. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And the barley and the straw, for horses and for dromedaries, they bring to the place where they are, each according to his ordinance.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And God gives very much wisdom and understanding to Solomon, and breadth of heart, as the sand that [is] on the edge of the sea; <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>and the wisdom of Solomon is greater than the wisdom of any of the sons of the east, and [greater] than all the wisdom of Egypt; <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>and he is wiser than all men, [wiser] than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, sons of Mahol, and his name is in all the surrounding nations. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And he speaks three thousand allegories, and his songs [are] one thousand and five; <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>and he speaks concerning the trees, from the cedar that [is] in Lebanon, even to the hyssop that is coming out in the wall, and he speaks concerning the livestock, and concerning the bird, and concerning the creeping things, and concerning the fishes, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>and there come out [those] of all the peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth who have heard of his wisdom.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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