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<p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha <i>were</i> scribes; <p class="list2">Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud <i>was</i> the recorder; <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada <i>was</i> over the army; <p class="list2">and Zadok and Abiathar <i>were</i> priests; <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and Azariah the son of Nathan <i>was</i> over the deputies; <p class="list2">and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, <i>was</i> the king’s friend; <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and Ahishar <i>was</i> over the household; <p class="list2">and Adoniram the son of Abda <i>was</i> over the men subject to forced labor. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, who sustained the king and his household; each man had to sustain <i>them</i> for a month in the year. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>These are their names: <p class="list2">Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim; <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan; <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh <i>was</i> his and all the land of Hepher); <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Ben-abinadab, <i>in</i> all <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>the height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife); <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Baana the son of Ahilud, <i>in</i> 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; <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (<i>now</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Havvoth-Jair—<i>Jair being</i> the son of Manasseh—which is in Gilead was his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars <i>were</i> his); <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Ahinadab the son of Iddo, <i>in</i> Mahanaim; <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon); <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Bealoth; <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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 <i>he was</i> the only deputy who <i>was</i> in the land. <p class="hdg">Judah’s and Israel’s Abundance and Security</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Judah and Israel <i>were</i> as numerous as the sand that is on the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>seashore in abundance; <i>they</i> were eating and drinking and being glad. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Now Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>River <i>to</i> the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt; <i>they</i> brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Solomon’s <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>provision for one day was <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>thirty kors of fine flour and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>sixty kors of meal, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>ten fat oxen, twenty <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>pasture-fed oxen, one hundred sheep besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For he had dominion over everything <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>west of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>west of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>River; and he had peace on all sides around about him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So Judah and Israel lived in security, every man under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Solomon had <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And these deputies sustained King Solomon and all who came to King Solomon’s table, each in his month; they left nothing lacking. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>They also brought barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where it should be, each according to the <i>legal</i> judgment for him. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of <i>understanding</i> in <i>his</i> heart, like the sand that is on the seashore. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And he was wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Darda, the sons of Mahol; and <i>the renown of</i> his name was in all the surrounding nations. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>And men came from all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i>Naphoth-dor</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Or <i>the towns of Jair</i><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Or <i>in Aloth</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Lit <i>sea</i><br><span class="fnverse">21</span> Ch 5:1 in Heb<br><span class="fnverse">21</span> The Euphrates River<br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Lit <i>bread</i><br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Approx. 195 bu. or 6.9 metric tons, a kor was approx. 6.5 bu. or 230 l<br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Approx. 390 bu. or 13.8 metric tons<br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Lit <i>oxen of the pasture</i><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> Lit <i>beyond</i><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> The Euphrates River<br><span class="fnverse">24</span> Lit <i>beyond</i><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> The Euphrates River<br><span class="fnverse">26</span> One ms <i>4,000</i>, cf. 2 Chr 9:25<br><span class="fnverse">31</span> In 1 Chr 2:6, <i>Dara</i><br><span class="fnverse">34</span> Lit <i>they</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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