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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>1 Kings 4 ERV</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/erv/1_kings/4.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/5001.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 4800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 4800px)" href="/4801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1550px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1550px)" href="/1551.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1250px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1250px)" href="/1251.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1050px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1050px)" href="/1051.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 900px), only screen and (max-device-width: 900px)" href="/901.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="/801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/501.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h451.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><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="/combine/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="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ERV</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 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">English Revised Version</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Solomon's Princes</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And king Solomon was king over all Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest; <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 host; 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 priest, 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 levy.</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>And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals 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>And 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 to 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, threescore great cities with walls and brasen 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 to 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 which 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>And Solomon ruled over all the 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted 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 Tipsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides round about him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And 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>And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto 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 unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.</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>And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And 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 round about. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And he spake of trees, from the cedar 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_kings/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Kings 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Kings 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_kings/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Kings 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Kings 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/scan/1_kings/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>