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And king Solomon was king over all Israel. |
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And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest; |
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Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder; |
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and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; |
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and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was priest, {cf15i and} the king-s friend; |
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and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy. |
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And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year: |
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And these are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim: |
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Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan: |
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Ben-hesed, in Arubboth; to him {cf15i pertained} Socoh, and all the land of Hepher: |
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Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife: |
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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: |
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Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him {cf15i pertained} the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; {cf15i even} to him {cf15i pertained} the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars: |
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Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim: |
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Ahimaaz, in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon to wife: |
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Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth: |
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Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar: |
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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 {cf15i he was} the only officer which was in the land. |
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Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. |
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And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life. |
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And Solomon-s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal; |
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ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl. |
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For he had dominion over all {cf15i the region} on this side the River, from Tipsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides round about him. |
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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. |
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And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. |
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And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon-s table, every man in his month: they let nothing be lacking. |
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Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they unto the place where {cf15i the officers} were, every man according to his charge. |
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And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. |
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And Solomon-s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. |
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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. |
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And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. |
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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 fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. |
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And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom. |
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