| 4:1 | So king Solomon was king over all Israel. |
| 4:2 | And these [were] the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest, |
| 4:3 | Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder. |
| 4:4 | And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the army: and Zadok and Abiathar [were] the priests: |
| 4:5 | And Azariah the son of Nathan [was] over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan [was] principal officer, [and] the king's friend: |
| 4:6 | And Ahishar [was] over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda [was] over the forced labour. |
| 4:7 | And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision. |
| 4:8 | And these [are] their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: |
| 4:9 | The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan: |
| 4:10 | The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him [pertained] Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher: |
| 4:11 | The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; who had Taphath the daughter of Solomon for a wife: |
| 4:12 | Baana the son of Ahilud; [to him pertained] Taanach and Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which [is] by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, [even] to [the place that is] beyond Jokneam: |
| 4:13 | The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him [pertained] the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which [are] in Gilead; to him [also pertained] the region of Argob, which [is] in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and brasen bars: |
| 4:14 | Ahinadab the son of Iddo [had] Mahanaim: |
| 4:15 | Ahimaaz [was] in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon for a wife: |
| 4:16 | Baanah the son of Hushai [was] in Asher and in Aloth: |
| 4:17 | Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar: |
| 4:18 | Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin: |
| 4:19 | Geber the son of Uri [was] in the country of Gilead, [in] the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and [he was] the only officer who [was] in the land. |
| 4:20 | Judah and Israel [were] many, as the sand which [is] by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. |
| 4:21 | And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life. |
| 4:22 | And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal, |
| 4:23 | Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, besides harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowls. |
| 4:24 | For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side of the river: and he had peace on all sides around him. |
| 4:25 | And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. |
| 4:26 | And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. |
| 4:27 | And those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all that came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing. |
| 4:28 | Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries they brought to the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his charge. |
| 4:29 | And God gave Solomon great wisdom and understanding, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the sea shore. |
| 4:30 | And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt. |
| 4:31 | For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the surrounding nations. |
| 4:32 | And he spoke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. |
| 4:33 | And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that [is] in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spoke also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes. |
| 4:34 | And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom. |
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