English Bible Presentation Sharing - 1-Kings Book, chapter 4, verse 29 in Web Version

1 Kings 4 : 1 (WEB)

King Solomon was king over all Israel.

1 Kings 4 : 2 (WEB)

These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

1 Kings 4 : 3 (WEB)

Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;

1 Kings 4 : 4 (WEB)

and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

1 Kings 4 : 5 (WEB)

and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, and the king's friend;

1 Kings 4 : 6 (WEB)

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

1 Kings 4 : 7 (WEB)

Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

1 Kings 4 : 8 (WEB)

These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;

1 Kings 4 : 9 (WEB)

Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;

1 Kings 4 : 10 (WEB)

Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);

1 Kings 4 : 11 (WEB)

Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

1 Kings 4 : 12 (WEB)

Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;

1 Kings 4 : 13 (WEB)

Ben Geber, in Ramoth-gilead (to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; even to him pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and brazen bars);

1 Kings 4 : 14 (WEB)

Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

1 Kings 4 : 15 (WEB)

Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

1 Kings 4 : 16 (WEB)

Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

1 Kings 4 : 17 (WEB)

Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

1 Kings 4 : 18 (WEB)

Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

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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 officer who was in the land.

1 Kings 4 : 20 (WEB)

Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

1 Kings 4 : 21 (WEB)

Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the 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.

1 Kings 4 : 22 (WEB)

Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,

1 Kings 4 : 23 (WEB)

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

1 Kings 4 : 24 (WEB)

For he had dominion over all the region on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides round about him.

1 Kings 4 : 25 (WEB)

Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 4 : 26 (WEB)

Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

1 Kings 4 : 27 (WEB)

Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.

1 Kings 4 : 28 (WEB)

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

1 Kings 4 : 29 (WEB)

God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.

1 Kings 4 : 30 (WEB)

Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1 Kings 4 : 31 (WEB)

For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations round about.

1 Kings 4 : 32 (WEB)

He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five.

1 Kings 4 : 33 (WEB)

He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon 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.

1 Kings 4 : 34 (WEB)

There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.