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1 Kings 4 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:1 - And king Solomon was king over all Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:2 - And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:3 - Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:4 - and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:5 - and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, and the king’s friend;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:6 - and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to taskwork.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:7 - And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:8 - And these are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:9 - Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:10 - Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:11 - Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife);
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:12 - 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;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:13 - 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 brazen bars);
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:14 - Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:15 - Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon to wife);
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:16 - Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:17 - Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:18 - Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:19 - 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 that was in the land.

Solomon's Power, Wealth and Wisdom

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:20 - Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:21 - And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:22 - And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23 - ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:24 - 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 round about him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:25 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:26 - And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:27 - And those officers provided victuals for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon’s table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:28 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:29 - And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:30 - And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:31 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:32 - And he spake three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:33 - 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 birds, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:34 - And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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