1 Kings 4 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Solomon's Officials

1Ki 4:1

1Ki 4:1Now King Solomon was king over all Israel.

1Ki 4:2

1Ki 4:2These were his officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest;

1Ki 4:3

1Ki 4:3Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;

1Ki 4:4

1Ki 4:4and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

1Ki 4:5

1Ki 4:5and 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

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

1Ki 4:7

1Ki 4:7Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, who [fn]provided for the king and his household; each man had to [fn]provide for a month in the year.

1Ki 4:8

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

1Ki 4:9

1Ki 4:9Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;

1Ki 4:10

1Ki 4:10Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh was his and all the land of Hepher);

1Ki 4:11

1Ki 4:11Ben-abinadab, in all [fn]the height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);

1Ki 4:12

1Ki 4:12Baana 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

1Ki 4:13Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (the towns 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);

1Ki 4:14

1Ki 4:14Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

1Ki 4:15

1Ki 4:15Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon);

1Ki 4:16

1Ki 4:16Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and [fn]Bealoth;

1Ki 4:17

1Ki 4:17Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

1Ki 4:18

1Ki 4:18Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

1Ki 4:19

1Ki 4:19Geber 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

1Ki 4:20

1Ki 4:20Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the [fn]seashore in abundance; they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.

1Ki 4:21

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

1Ki 4:22Solomon’s [fn]provision for one day was thirty [fn]kors of fine flour and sixty [fn]kors of meal,

1Ki 4:23

1Ki 4:23ten fat oxen, twenty [fn]pasture-fed oxen, a hundred sheep besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.

1Ki 4:24

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 4:25

1Ki 4:25So Judah and Israel lived in safety, every man under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

1Ki 4:26

1Ki 4:26Solomon had [fn]40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.

1Ki 4:27

1Ki 4:27Those deputies [fn]provided for King Solomon and all who came to King Solomon’s table, each in his month; they left nothing lacking.

1Ki 4:28

1Ki 4:28They also brought barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where it should be, each according to his charge.

1Ki 4:29

1Ki 4:29Now God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of [fn]mind, like the sand that is on the seashore.

1Ki 4:30

1Ki 4:30Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1Ki 4:31

1Ki 4:31For he was wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol and [fn]Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his [fn]fame was known in all the surrounding nations.

1Ki 4:32

1Ki 4:32He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005.

1Ki 4:33

1Ki 4:33He 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

1Ki 4:34 [fn]Men came from all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.

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NASB95 Footnotes

(4:7)

Literally: nourished

Literally: nourish

Or, Naphoth-dor

Or, in Aloth

Literally: sea

Ch 5:1 in Heb

I.e. Euphrates

Literally: bread

I.e. One kor equals approx 10 bu

(4:23)

Literally: oxen of the pasture

(4:24)

Literally: beyond

(4:24)

I.e. Euphrates

(4:26)

One ms reads 4000, cf 2 Chr 9:25

Or, nourished

Literally: heart

In 1 Chr 2:6, Dara

Literally: name

Literally: they

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1 Kings 4 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Solomon's Officials

Solomon's Power, Wealth and Wisdom

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