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1 Kings 4 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Solomon’s Officials

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Now King Solomon was king over all Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:2 - These were his officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:3 - Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the secretary;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:4 - and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:5 - and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the deputies; and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, was the king’s confidant;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:6 - and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the forced labor.

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Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household; each deputy had to provide food for a month in the year.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:8 - And these were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:9 - Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elonbeth-hanan;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:10 - Ben-hesed in Arubboth (Socoh was his and all the land of Hepher);

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:11 - Ben-abinadab in all [fn]the hills of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:12 - Baana the son of Ahilud in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah as far as the other side of Jokmeam;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:13 - Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead were his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:14 - Ahinadab the son of Iddo in Mahanaim;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:15 - Ahimaaz in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon);

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:16 - Baana the son of Hushai in Asher and [fn]Bealoth;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:17 - Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah in Issachar;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:18 - Shimei the son of Ela in Benjamin;

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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 deputy who was in the land.

Solomon’s Power, Wealth, and Wisdom

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Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the [fn]seashore in abundance; they were eating, drinking, and rejoicing.

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[fn]Now Solomon was ruling over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

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Solomon’s [fn]provision for one day was [fn]thirty kors of fine flour and [fn]sixty kors of meal,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23 - ten fat oxen, twenty [fn]pasture-fed oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened geese.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:24 - For he was ruling over everything [fn]west of the Euphrates River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings [fn]west of the River; and he had peace on all sides surrounding him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:25 - So Judah and Israel lived securely, everyone under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:26 - Solomon had [fn]forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:27 - And those deputies provided food for King Solomon and all who came to King Solomon’s table, each in his month; they allowed nothing to be lacking.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:28 - They also brought barley and straw for the war horses and baggage horses to the place where it was required, each deputy according to his duty.

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Now God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of [fn]mind, like the sand that is on the seashore.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:30 - Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the [fn]people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:31 - For he was wiser than all other people, more than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and [fn]Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his [fn]fame was known in all the surrounding nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:32 - He also told three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered 1,005.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:33 - He told of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he told also of animals, birds, crawling things, and fish.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:34 - People came from all the [fn]nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.
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NASB20 Footnotes
Or Naphoth-dor
Or in Aloth
Lit sea
Ch 5:1 in Heb
Lit bread
About 231 cubic feet or 6.5 cubic meters
About 462 cubic feet or 13 cubic meters
Lit oxen of the pasture
Lit beyond
Lit beyond
One LXX ms reads 4,000, cf. 2 Chr 9:25
Lit heart
Lit sons
In 1 Chr 2:6, Dara
Lit name
Lit peoples
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1 Kings Chapter 4 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras