Chapter 4

  So king Solomon was king over all Israel.  

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  And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,  

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  Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehosaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.  

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  And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:  

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  And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king's friend:  

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  And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.  

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  And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.  

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  And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:  

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  The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan:  

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  The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:  

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  The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; who had Taphath the daughter of Solomon for a wife:  

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  Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, even to the place that is beyond Jokneam:  

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  The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and brazen bars:  

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  Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:  

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  Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon for a wife:  

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  Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:  

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  Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:  

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  Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:  

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  Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in 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.  

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  Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.  

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  And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.  

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  And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal.  

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  Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and roebucks, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowls.  

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  For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side of the river: and he had peace on all sides around him.  

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  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.  

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  And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.  

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  And those officers provided victuals for king Solomon, and for all that came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.  

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  Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries they brought to the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.  

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  And God gave Solomon great wisdom and understanding, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.  

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  And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.  

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  For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.  

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  And he spoke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.  

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  And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spoke also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping animals, and of fishes.  

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  And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.  

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