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Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Solomon’s Princes<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And king Solomon reigned over Israel. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And these <i>are</i> the princes which he had; Azarias son of Sadoc. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Eliaph, and Achia son of Seba, scribes; and Josaphat son of Achilud, recorder. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And Banaeas son of Jodae over the host; and Sadoc and Abiathar <i>were</i> priests. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Ornia the son of Nathan <i>was</i> over the officers; and Zabuth son of Nathan <i>was</i> the king's friend. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Achisar was steward, and Eliac the <i>chief</i> steward; and Eliab the son of Saph <i>was</i> over the family: and Adoniram the son of Audon over the tribute.<p> <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">Solomon’s Twelve Officers<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, to provide for the king and his household; each one's turn came to supply for a month in the year. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And these <i>were</i> their names: Been the son of Or in the mount of Ephraim, one. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The son of Dacar, in Makes, and in Salabin, and Baethsamys, and Elon as far as Bethanan, one. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The son of Esdi in Araboth; his <i>was</i> Socho, and all the land of Opher. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>All Nephthador <i>belonged to</i> the son of Aminadab, Tephath daughter of Solomon was his wife, one. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Bana son of Achiluth <i>had</i> Ithaanach, and Mageddo, and <i>his was</i> the whole house of San which was by Sesathan below Esrae, and from Bethsan as far as Sabelmaula, as far as Maeber Lucam, one. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The son of Naber in Raboth Galaad, to him <i>fell</i> the lot of Ergab in Basan, sixty great cities with walls, and brazen bars, one. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Achinadab son of Saddo, <i>had</i> Maanaim. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Achimaas <i>was</i> in Nephthalim, and he took Basemmath daughter of Solomon to wife, one. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Baana son of Chusi, in Aser and in Baaloth, one, <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Josaphat son of Phuasud <i>was</i> in Issachar. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Semei son of Ela, in Benjamin. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Gaber son of Adai in the land of Gad, <i>the land</i> of Seon king of Esebon, and of Og king of Basan, and one officer in the land of Juda.<p> <A name="21"></a><p class="hdg">Solomon’s Prosperity<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><font color=blue>(OMITTED TEXT)</font><p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><font color=blue>(OMITTED TEXT)</font><p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And these <i>were</i> the requisite supplies for Solomon: in one day thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of fine pounded meal, <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>and ten choice calves, and twenty pastured oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides stags, and choice fatted does. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For he had dominion on this side the river, and he was at peace on all sides round about. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><font color=blue>(OMITTED TEXT)</font> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><font color=blue>(OMITTED TEXT)</font> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And thus the officers provided king Solomon: and <i>they execute</i> every one in his month all the orders for the table of the king, they omit nothing. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And they carried the barley and the straw for the horses and the chariots to the place where the king might be, each according to his charge.<p> <A name="30"></a><p class="hdg">Solomon’s Wisdom<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and very much wisdom, and enlargement of heart, as the sand on the seashore. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And Solomon abounded greatly beyond the wisdom of all the ancients, and beyond all the wise men of Egypt. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And he was wiser than all <i>other</i> men: and he was wiser than Gaethan the Zarite, and <i>than</i> Aenan, and <i>than</i> Chalcad and Darala the son of Mal. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And Solomon spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were five thousand. <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And he spoke of trees, from the cedar in Libanus even to the hyssop which comes out through the wall: he spoke also of cattle, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fishes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And all the nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and <i>ambassadors</i> from all the kings of the earth, as many as heard of his wisdom. <font color=blue>(4:34A)</font> And Solomon took to himself the daughter of Pharao to wife, and brought her into the city of David until he had finished the house of the Lord, and his own house, and the wall of Jerusalem. <font color=blue>(4:34B)</font> Then went up Pharao the king of Egypt, and took Gazer, and burnt it and the Chananite dwelling in Mergab; and Pharao gave them as a dowry to his daughter the wife of Solomon: and Solomon rebuilt Gazer.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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" 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