1 Kings
1 Kings 4
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1 Kings 4 — Scripture text (King James Version)
So king was king over all . And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of the priest, Elihoreph and , the sons of , ; the son of , the recorder. And the son of was over the host: and and were the priests: And the son of was over the officers: and the son of was principal officer, and the king’s friend: And was over the household: and the son of was over the tribute. And had twelve officers over all , which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision. And these are their names: The son of , in mount : The son of , in , and in , and -shemesh, and -beth-hanan: The son of , in ; to him pertained , and all the land of : The son of , in all the region of ; which had the daughter of to wife: Baana the son of ; to him pertained and , and all -shean, which is by beneath , from -shean to -meholah, even unto the place that is beyond : The son of , in -; to him pertained the towns of the son of , which are in ; to him also pertained the region of , which is in , threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars: Ahinadab the son of had : Ahimaaz was in ; he also took the daughter of to wife: Baanah the son of was in and in : the son of , in : Shimei the son of , in : Geber the son of was in the country of , in the country of king of the , and of Og king of ; and he was the only officer which was in the land. and were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. And reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the , and unto the border of : they brought presents, and served all the days of his life. And ’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred , beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl. For he had dominion over all the region this side the river, from even to , over all the kings this side the river: and he had peace all sides round about him. And and dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from even to -, all the days of . And had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. And those officers provided victual for king , and for all that came unto king ’s table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing. Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge. And God gave and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is the sea shore. And ’s excelled the of all the children of the east country, and all the of . For he was wiser than all men; than the , and , and , and , the sons of : and his fame was in all nations round about. And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in 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. And there came of all people to hear the of , from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his .