1901 American Standard Version (ASV)

1 Kings 4

1 Solomon's princes. 7 His twelve officers for provision. 20, 24 The peace and largeness of his kingdom. 22 His daily provision. 26 His stables. 29 His wisdom.

 4:1 ¶ And king Solomon was king over all Israel.

 4:2 And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

 4:3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;

 4:4 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

 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;

 4:6 and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to taskwork.

 4:7 ¶ 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.

 4:8 And these are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;

 4:9 Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;

 4:10 Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him [pertained] Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);

 4:11 Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife);

 4:12 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;

 4:13 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);

 4:14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

 4:15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon to wife);

 4:16 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

 4:17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

 4:18 Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

 4:19 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.

 4:20 ¶ Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

 4:21 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.

 4:22 ¶ And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,

 4:23 ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl.

 4:24 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.

 4:25 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.

 4:26 ¶ And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

 4:27 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.

 4:28 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.

 4:29 ¶ And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.

 4:30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

 4:31 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.

 4:32 And he spake three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.

 4:33 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.

 4:34 And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.