Verse 22
1 Kings 4:22
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And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;
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Chapter 4 Context
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Now Solomon was king over all Israel.
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And these were his chief men: Azariah, the son of Zadok, was the priest;
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Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were scribes; Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the reco...
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Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was head of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
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Azariah, the son of Nathan, was over those in authority in the different divisions of the country; Z...
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Ahishar was controller of the king's house; Adoniram, the son of Abda, was overseer of the forced wo...
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And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the ki...
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And these are their names: ... the son of Hur in the hill country of Ephraim;
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... the son of Deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;
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... the son of Hesed in Arubboth; Socoh and all the land of Hepher were under his control;
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... the son of Abinadab in all Naphath-dor; his wife was Taphath, the daughter of Solomon.
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Baana, the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is by the side of Zaretha...
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... the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead; he had the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in G...
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Ahinadab, the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
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Ahimaaz in Naphtali; he took Basemath, the daughter of Solomon, as his wife;
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Baana, the son of Hushai, in Asher and Aloth;
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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 Og, ki...
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Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and dr...
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And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as fa...
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And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures...
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Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles...
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For he had authority over all the country on this side of the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all...
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So Judah and Israel were living safely, every man under his vine and his fig-tree, from Dan as far a...
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And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand hor...
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And those overseers, every man in his month, saw that food was produced for Solomon and all his gues...
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And they took grain and dry grass for the horses and the carriage-horses, to the right place, every...
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And God (Elohim) gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as w...
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And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of...
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For he was wiser than all men, even than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman and Calcol and Darda, the son...
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He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.
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He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and a...
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People came from every nation to give ear to the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth...
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