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Solomon's
Officials |
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| 1 Kings 4:1 |
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Now King Solomon was king over all Israel. |
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| 1 Kings 4:2 |
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These were his officials: Azariah the son of
Zadok was the priest; |
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| 1 Kings 4:3 |
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Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were
secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder; |
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| 1 Kings 4:4 |
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and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the
army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; |
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| 1 Kings 4:5 |
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and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the deputies;
and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, was the king's friend; |
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| 1 Kings 4:6 |
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and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram
the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor. |
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| 1 Kings 4:7 |
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Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel,
who provided for the king and his household; each man had to provide for a month
in the year. |
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| 1 Kings 4:8 |
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These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill
country of Ephraim; |
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| 1 Kings 4:9 |
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Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh
and Elonbeth-hanan; |
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| 1 Kings 4:10 |
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Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh was his and all
the land of Hepher); |
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| 1 Kings 4:11 |
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Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (Taphath
the daughter of Solomon was his wife); |
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| 1 Kings 4:12 |
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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; |
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| 1 Kings 4:13 |
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Ben-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); |
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| 1 Kings 4:14 |
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Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; |
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| 1 Kings 4:15 |
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Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath
the daughter of Solomon); |
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| 1 Kings 4:16 |
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Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; |
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| 1 Kings 4:17 |
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Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; |
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| 1 Kings 4:18 |
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Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; |
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| 1 Kings 4:19 |
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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 deputy who was in the land. |
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Solomon's
Power, Wealth and Wisdom |
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| 1 Kings 4:20 |
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Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand
that is on the seashore in abundance; they were eating and drinking and rejoicing. |
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| 1 Kings 4:21 |
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Now 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. |
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| 1 Kings 4:22 |
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Solomon's provision for one day was thirty tkors
of fine flour and sixty kors of meal, |
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| 1 Kings 4:23 |
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ten fat oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, a hundred
sheep besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl. |
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| 1 Kings 4:24 |
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For he had dominion over everything west of
the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings west of the River; and
he had peace on all sides around about him. |
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| 1 Kings 4:25 |
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So 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. |
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| 1 Kings 4:26 |
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Solomon had 40,000 stalls of horses for his
chariots, and 12,000 horsemen. |
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| 1 Kings 4:27 |
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Those deputies provided for King Solomon and
all who came to King Solomon's table, each in his month; they left nothing lacking. |
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| 1 Kings 4:28 |
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They also brought barley and straw for the horses
and swift steeds to the place where it should be, each according to his charge. |
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| 1 Kings 4:29 |
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Now God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment
and breadth of mind, like the sand that is on the seashore. |
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| 1 Kings 4:30 |
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Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all
the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt. |
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| 1 Kings 4:31 |
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For he was wiser than all men, than Ethan the
Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was known in
all the surrounding nations. |
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| 1 Kings 4:32 |
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He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs
were 1,005. |
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| 1 Kings 4:33 |
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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. |
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| 1 Kings 4:34 |
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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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