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[Jehoshaphat], son of Ahilud, was the royal historian. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>[Benaiah], son of Jehoiada, was commander of the army. [Zadok] and [Abiathar] were priests. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>[Azariah], son of Nathan, was in charge of the district governors. [Zabud], son of Nathan, was the king's adviser. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>[Ahishar] was in charge of the palace. [Adoniram], son of Abda, was in charge of forced labor.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Solomon appointed 12 district governors in Israel. They were to provide food for the king and his palace. Each one had to supply food for one month every year. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Their names were [Benhur], who was in charge of the hills of Ephraim, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>[Bendeker], who was in charge of Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan, and <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>[Benhesed], who was in charge of Arubboth, Socoh, and the entire region of Hepher. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>[Benabinadab] had the entire region of Dor. (Solomon's daughter Taphath was his wife.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>[Baana], son of Ahilud, had Taanach, Megiddo, and all of Beth Shean. (This was near Zarethan, below Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah and over to Jokmeam.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>[Bengeber] was in charge of Ramoth Gilead; he had the settlements of Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, in Gilead. He [also] had the territory of Argob in Bashan, 60 large cities with walls and bronze bars across their gates. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>[Ahinadab], son of Iddo, was in charge of Mahanaim. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>[Ahimaaz] was in charge of Naphtali. (He also married Solomon's daughter Basemath.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>[Baana], son of Hushai, was in charge of Asher and Aloth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>[Jehoshaphat], son of Paruah, was in charge of Issachar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>[Shimei], son of Ela, was in charge of Benjamin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>[Geber], son of Uri, was in charge of Gilead, the territory of King Sihon the Amorite and King Og of Bashan. (There was only one governor in that territory.) </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They ate and drank and lived happily. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Solomon ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the country of the Philistines and as far as the Egyptian border. These kingdoms paid taxes and were subject to Solomon as long as he lived.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Solomon's food supply for one day was 180 bushels of flour, 360 bushels of coarse flour, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>10 fattened cows, 20 cows from the pasture, and 100 sheep in addition to deer, gazelles, fallow deer, and fattened birds. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He controlled all the territory west of the Euphrates River from Tiphsah to Gaza and all of its kings. So he lived in peace with all the neighboring countries. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>As long as Solomon lived, Judah and Israel (from Dan to Beersheba) lived securely, everyone under his own vine and fig tree. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Solomon had stalls for 40,000 chariot horses. He also had 12,000 chariot soldiers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Each of the governors provided food for one month every year for King Solomon and all who ate at his table. The governors saw to it that nothing was in short supply. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>They brought their quota of barley and straw for the chariot horses to the proper places.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>God gave Solomon wisdom-keen insight and a mind as limitless as the sand on the seashore. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Solomon's wisdom was greater than that of all the eastern people and all the wisdom of the Egyptians. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>He was wiser than anyone, than Ethan the Ezrahite, or Heman, Calcol, or Darda, Mahol's sons. His fame spread to all the nations around him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Solomon spoke 3,000 proverbs and wrote 1,005 songs. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>He described and classified trees-from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing out of the wall. He described and classified animals, birds, reptiles, and fish. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/4-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>People came from every nation to hear his wisdom; they came from all the kings of the earth who had heard about his wisdom.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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