1 And king Solomon was king over all Israel. ASV — 1Kings 4:1
2 And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest; ASV — 1Kings 4:2
3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder; ASV — 1Kings 4:3
4 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; ASV — 1Kings 4:4
5 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, [and] the king`s friend; ASV — 1Kings 4:5
6 and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to taskwork. ASV — 1Kings 4:6
7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year. ASV — 1Kings 4:7
8 And these are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim; ASV — 1Kings 4:8
9 Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan; ASV — 1Kings 4:9
10 Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him [pertained] Socoh, and all the land of Hepher); ASV — 1Kings 4:10
11 Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife); ASV — 1Kings 4:11
12 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; ASV — 1Kings 4:12
13 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, threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars); ASV — 1Kings 4:13
14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; ASV — 1Kings 4:14
15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon to wife); ASV — 1Kings 4:15
16 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; ASV — 1Kings 4:16
17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; ASV — 1Kings 4:17
18 Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; ASV — 1Kings 4:18
19 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 that was in the land. ASV — 1Kings 4:19
20 Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. ASV — 1Kings 4:20
21 And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life. ASV — 1Kings 4:21
22 And Solomon`s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, ASV — 1Kings 4:22
23 ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl. ASV — 1Kings 4:23
24 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. ASV — 1Kings 4:24
25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon. ASV — 1Kings 4:25
26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. ASV — 1Kings 4:26
27 And those officers provided victuals for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon`s table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking. ASV — 1Kings 4:27
28 Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they unto the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his charge. ASV — 1Kings 4:28
29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore. ASV — 1Kings 4:29
30 And Solomon`s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. ASV — 1Kings 4:30
31 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. ASV — 1Kings 4:31
32 And he spake three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five. ASV — 1Kings 4:32
33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spake also of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fishes. ASV — 1Kings 4:33
34 And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom. ASV — 1Kings 4:34