1 Kings 4

Revised Geneva Translation

4 And King Solomon was king over all Israel.

² And these were his princes: Azariah the son of Zadok the Priest,

³ Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were scribes. Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the recorder.

⁴ Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the army. And Zadok and Abiathar were Priests.

⁵ And Azariah, the son of Nathan, was over the officers. And Zabud the son of Nathan, Priest, was the king’s friend.

⁶ And Ahishar was over the household. And Adoniram, the son of Abda, was over the tribute.

⁷ And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had a month in the year to provide food.

⁸ And these are their names: the son of Hur on mount Ephraim,

⁹ the son of Deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth Shemesh and Elon and Beth Hanan,

¹⁰ the son of Hesed in Arubboth (to whom belonged Sochoh and all the land of Hepher),

¹¹ the son of Abinadab in all the region of Dor (who had Taphath, the daughter of Solomon, as a wife),

¹² Baana, the son of Ahilud in Taanach, Megiddo, and all Beth Shean (which is by Zaretan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as the other side of Jokneam,

¹³ the son of Geber in Ramoth Gilead (and his were the towns of Jair), the son of Manasseh (who are in Gilead), and under him was the region of Argob (which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bars of bronze),

¹⁴ Ahinadab, the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim,

¹⁵ Ahimaaz in Naphtali (and he took Basemath, the daughter of Solomon, as a wife),

¹⁶ Baanah, the son of Hushai, in Asher and Aloth,

¹⁷ Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, in Issachar,

¹⁸ Shimei, the son of Elah, in Benjamin,

¹⁹ Geber, the son of Uri, in the country of Gilead, the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan (and was officer alone in the land).

²⁰ Judah and Israel were many—as the sand of the sea in number—eating, drinking and making merry.

²¹ And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms, from the river to the land of the Philistines to the border of Egypt. And they brought presents and served Solomon all the days of his life.

²² And Solomon’s food for one day were thirty measures of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,

²³ ten fat oxen, twenty oxen of the pastures, and a hundred sheep (besides deer, bucks, gazelles, and fat fowl).

²⁴ For he ruled in all the region on the other side of the river, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings on the other side the river. And he had peace all around him on every side.

²⁵ And Judah and Israel dwelt without fear, each man under his vine, and under his fig tree, from Dan to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

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

²⁷ And these officers provided food for King Solomon, and for all who came to King Solomon’s table, every man his month. They lacked nothing.

²⁸ Also, they brought barley and straw for the horses and mules to the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.

²⁹ And God gave Solomon very much wisdom and understanding and a large heart, as the sand that is on the seashore.

³⁰ And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the East, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

³¹ For he was wiser than any man: Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Chalcol, or Darda, the sons of Mahol. And he was famous throughout all nations all around.

³² And Solomon spoke three thousand proverbs and a thousand five songs.

³³ And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that springs out of the wall. He also spoke of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.

³⁴ And people came from all nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the Earth who had heard of his wisdom.