Verse 27
1 Kings 4:27
World English Bible, British Edition
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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.
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Chapter 4 Context
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King Solomon was king over all Israel.
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These were the princes whom 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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Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; Zadok and Abiathar were
priests;
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Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan
was chief minister, the kin...
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Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over
the men subject to forced labo...
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Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food
for the king and his household. Each...
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These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
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Ben Deker, in Makaz, in Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;
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Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to
him);
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Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath, Solomon’s daughter,
as wife);
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Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean
which is beside Zarethan, beneat...
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Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh,
which are in Gilead, belonged to...
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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
as 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 kin...
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Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea
in multitude, eating and drinking and...
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Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the
Philistines, and to the border...
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Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors
of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,
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ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and
one hundred sheep, in additio...
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For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even
to Gaza, over all the kings o...
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Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his
fig tree, from Dan even to Bee...
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Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve
thousand horsemen.
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Those officers provided food for King Solomon, and for all who came
to King Solomon’s table, every m...
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They also brought barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to
the place where the officers w...
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God (Elohim) gave Solomon abundant wisdom, understanding, and breadth of mind
like the sand that is...
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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—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman,
Calcol, and Darda, the sons of M...
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He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered one thousand and five.
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He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop
that grows out of the wall;...
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People of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, sent by all
kings of the earth who had hea...
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