Verse 34
1 Kings 4:34
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And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
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Chapter 4 Context
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And king Solomon was king over all Israel.
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And 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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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 chief minister,...
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and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to taskwor...
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And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his househol...
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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 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, beneat...
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Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gi...
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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 kin...
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Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and mak...
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And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River unto the land of the Philistines, and unto th...
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And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of me...
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ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles,...
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For he had dominion over all the region on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all...
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And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to...
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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 victuals for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon’s tab...
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Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they unto the place where the officers...
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And God (Elohim) gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even...
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And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egyp...
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For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons o...
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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...
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And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had he...