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;

1 Kings 4:19 (WEB)
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.