| 4:1 | Now Solomon was king over all Israel. |
| 4:2 | And these were his chief men: Azariah, the son of Zadok, was the priest; |
| 4:3 | Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were scribes; Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the recorder; |
| 4:4 | Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was head of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests; |
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| 4:7 | And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house; every man was responsible for one month in the year. |
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| 4:12 | Baana, the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is by the side of Zarethan, under Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the far side of Jokmeam; |
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| 4:14 | Ahinadab, the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; |
| 4:15 | Ahimaaz in Naphtali; he took Basemath, the daughter of Solomon, as his wife; |
| 4:16 | Baana, the son of Hushai, in Asher and Aloth; |
| 4:17 | Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, in Issachar; |
| 4:18 | Shimei, the son of Ela, in Benjamin; |
| 4:19 | Geber, the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan; and one overseer had authority over all the overseers who were in the land. |
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| 4:20 | Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts. |
| 4:21 | And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life. |
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| 4:23 | Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls. |
| 4:24 | For he had authority over all the country on this side of the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings on this side of the River; and he had peace round him on every side. |
| 4:25 | So Judah and Israel were living safely, every man under his vine and his fig-tree, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon. |
| 4:26 | And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen. |
| 4:27 | And those overseers, every man in his month, saw that food was produced for Solomon and all his guests, they took care that nothing was overlooked. |
| 4:28 | And they took grain and dry grass for the horses and the carriage-horses, to the right place, every man as he was ordered. |
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| 4:29 | And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside. |
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| 4:31 | For he was wiser than all men, even than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman and Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and he had a great name among all the nations round about. |
| 4:32 | He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five. |
| 4:33 | He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth. |
| 4:34 | People came from every nation to give ear to the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had word of his wisdom. |
1 Raja-raja 4 - Bible in Basic English
