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1 Kings 4 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

1Ki 4:1

1Ki 4:1King Shlomo was king over all Yisra'el.

1Ki 4:2

1Ki 4:2These were the princes whom he had: `Azaryah the son of Tzadok, the Kohen;

1Ki 4:3

1Ki 4:3Elichoref and Achiyah, the sons of Shisha, Sofrim; Yehoshafat the son of Achilud, the recorder;

1Ki 4:4

1Ki 4:4and Benayah the son of Yehoiada was over the host; and Tzadok and Avyatar were Kohanim;

1Ki 4:5

1Ki 4:5and `Azaryah the son of Natan was over the officers; and Zavud the son of Natan was chief minister, and the king's friend;

1Ki 4:6

1Ki 4:6and Achishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of `Avda was over the men subject to forced labor.

1Ki 4:7

1Ki 4:7Shlomo had twelve officers over all Yisra'el, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

1Ki 4:8

1Ki 4:8These are their names: Ben-Hur, in the hill-country of Efrayim;

1Ki 4:9

1Ki 4:9Ben-Deker, in Makatz, and in Sha`alvim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-Beit-Hanan;

1Ki 4:10

1Ki 4:10Ben-Hesed, in Arubbot (to him pertained Sokho, and all the land of Hefer);

1Ki 4:11

1Ki 4:11Ben-Avinadav, in all the height of Dor (he had Tafat the daughter of Shlomo as wife);

1Ki 4:12

1Ki 4:12Ba`anah the son of Achilud, in Ta`nakh and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Tzaretan, beneath Yizre`el, from Beth-shean to Avel-Mecholah, as far as beyond Yokme`am;

1Ki 4:13

1Ki 4:13Ben-Gever, in Ramot-Gil`ad (to him pertained the towns of Ya'ir the son of Menashsheh, which are in Gil`ad; even to him pertained the region of Argov, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and brazen bars);

1Ki 4:14

1Ki 4:14Achinadav the son of `Iddo, in Machanayim;

1Ki 4:15

1Ki 4:15Achima`atz, in Naftali (he also took Basemat the daughter of Shlomo as wife);

1Ki 4:16

1Ki 4:16Ba`anah the son of Hushai, in Asher and Be`alot;

1Ki 4:17

1Ki 4:17Yehoshafat the son of Paru'ach, in Yissakhar;

1Ki 4:18

1Ki 4:18Shim`i the son of Ela, in Binyamin;

1Ki 4:19

1Ki 4:19Gever the son of Uri, in the land of Gil`ad, the country of Sichon king of the Amori and of `Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land.

Solomon's Power, Wealth and Wisdom

1Ki 4:20

1Ki 4:20Yehudah and Yisra'el were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

1Ki 4:21

1Ki 4:21Shlomo ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Pelishtim, and to the border of Mitzrayim: they brought tribute, and served Shlomo all the days of his life.

1Ki 4:22

1Ki 4:22Shlomo's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,

1Ki 4:23

1Ki 4:23ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.

1Ki 4:24

1Ki 4:24For he had dominion over all the region on this side the River, from Tifsach even to `Aza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had shalom on all sides round about him.

1Ki 4:25

1Ki 4:25Yehudah and Yisra'el lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Be'er-Sheva, all the days of Shlomo.

1Ki 4:26

1Ki 4:26Shlomo had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

1Ki 4:27

1Ki 4:27Those officers provided victuals for king Shlomo, and for all who came to king Shlomo's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.

1Ki 4:28

1Ki 4:28Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they to the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.

1Ki 4:29

1Ki 4:29God gave Shlomo wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.

1Ki 4:30

1Ki 4:30Shlomo's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Mitzrayim.

1Ki 4:31

1Ki 4:31For he was wiser than all men; than Etan the Ezrachite, and Heman, and Kalkol, and Darda, the sons of Machol: and his fame was in all the nations round about.

1Ki 4:32

1Ki 4:32He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five.

1Ki 4:33

1Ki 4:33He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Levanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.

1Ki 4:34

1Ki 4:34There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Shlomo, from all kings of the eretz, who had heard of his wisdom.
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