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<span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, [and] the king's friend; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.</p> <p class="hdg">Solomon's Twelve Officers</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had to make provision 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: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him [pertained] Socoh, and all the land of Hepher); <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife); <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (to him [pertained] the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; [even] to him [pertained] the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars); <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife); <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; <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 [he was] the only officer who was in the land.</p> <p class="hdg">Solomon's Wealth</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>ten head of fat cattle, and twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under 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 forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they to the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his duty.</p> <p class="hdg">Solomon's Wisdom</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. 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