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1 Kings 4 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Solomon’s Officials

1Ki 4:1

So King Solomon was king over all Israel.

1Ki 4:2These were his officials:

Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest;

1Ki 4:3

Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were scribes;

Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;

1Ki 4:4

and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army;

and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

1Ki 4:5

and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the deputies;

and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, was the king’s friend;

1Ki 4:6

and Ahishar was over the household;

and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.

1Ki 4:7

Now Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, who sustained the king and his household; each man had to sustain them for a month in the year.

1Ki 4:8These are their names:

Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

1Ki 4:9

Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;

1Ki 4:10

Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh was his and all the land of Hepher);

1Ki 4:11

Ben-abinadab, in all [fn]the height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);

1Ki 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;

1Ki 4:13

Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (now [fn]Havvoth-JairJair being the son of Manasseh—which is in Gilead was his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);

1Ki 4:14

Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

1Ki 4:15

Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon);

1Ki 4:16

Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and [fn]Bealoth;

1Ki 4:17

Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

1Ki 4:18

Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

1Ki 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.

Judah’s and Israel’s Abundance and Security

1Ki 4:20

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

1Ki 4:21

[fn]Now Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the [fn]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.

1Ki 4:22

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

1Ki 4:23ten fat oxen, twenty [fn]pasture-fed oxen, one hundred sheep besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.
1Ki 4:24For he had dominion over everything [fn]west of the [fn]River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings [fn]west of the [fn]River; and he had peace on all sides around about him.
1Ki 4:25So Judah and Israel lived in security, every man under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
1Ki 4:26Solomon had [fn]40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.
1Ki 4:27And these deputies sustained King Solomon and all who came to King Solomon’s table, each in his month; they left nothing lacking.
1Ki 4:28They also brought barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where it should be, each according to the legal judgment for him.
1Ki 4:29

And God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of understanding in his heart, like the sand that is on the seashore.

1Ki 4:30And Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
1Ki 4:31And he was wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and [fn]Darda, the sons of Mahol; and the renown of his name was in all the surrounding nations.
1Ki 4:32He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005.
1Ki 4:33And he spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he spoke also of animals and birds and creeping things and fish.
1Ki 4:34[fn]And men came from all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.
LSB Footnotes
Or Naphoth-dor
Or the towns of Jair
Or in Aloth
Lit sea
Ch 5:1 in Heb
The Euphrates River
Lit bread
Approx. 195 bu. or 6.9 metric tons, a kor was approx. 6.5 bu. or 230 l
Approx. 390 bu. or 13.8 metric tons
Lit oxen of the pasture
Lit beyond
The Euphrates River
Lit beyond
The Euphrates River
One ms 4,000, cf. 2 Chr 9:25
In 1 Chr 2:6, Dara
Lit they
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