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    1 Kings 4

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    Solomon’s daily table required thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal, thirty oxen, a hundred sheep, and then deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry—as if supper had been appointed by an especially ambitious quartermaster.

    The machinery of the kingdomvv. 1–19

    Solomon ruled Israel with a court arranged almost like a well-stocked cabinet: priests, secretaries, a recorder, an army commander, an adviser, a palace master, and Adoniram in charge of forced labor. Then came the twelve governors, each assigned a month of provisions. Their districts run across the map in a grand procession, from Ephraim and Makaz to Naphtali, Asher, Issachar, Benjamin, and Gilead. The list is admirably practical, pausing for such details as a daughter of Solomon being married to one governor, and Argob possessing sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars. After the twelve names, the account adds, with a small unexplained flourish, that there was also one governor in Judah.

    A kingdom fed to the brimvv. 20–28

    The people of Judah and Israel were numerous, cheerful, and well supplied. Solomon’s rule stretched from the Euphrates to the border of Egypt, while tribute came in and the surrounding kingdoms served him. The household’s daily allowance is then counted out with remarkable composure: flour, meal, oxen, sheep, game, and poultry. Peace sat on every side, and people lived securely from Dan to Beersheba, each under his own vine and fig tree. The governors kept the table full, and also delivered barley and straw for the horses—four thousand stalls and twelve thousand horses being waiting in the wings.

    The king who knew trees and fishvv. 29–34

    Then the chapter changes its measure. God gave Solomon wisdom, deep insight, and understanding beyond measure, compared once more with the sand on the seashore. He surpassed the wisdom of Egypt and the men of the East, and even the named sages Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. His output was counted too: three thousand proverbs and a thousand and five songs. His teaching ranged from the cedar of Lebanon to hyssop in a wall, and from animals and birds to reptiles and fish. Men came from all nations to listen, sent by kings who had heard of him; a very large audience for a man who had apparently begun by discussing plants.

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    1. 1 Kgs 4:1So King Solomon ruled over Israel,

    2. 1 Kgs 4:2and these were his chief officials: Azariah son of Zadok was the priest;

    3. 1 Kgs 4:3Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were secretaries; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

    4. 1 Kgs 4:4Benaiah son of Jehoiada was in charge of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

    5. 1 Kgs 4:5Azariah son of Nathan was in charge of the governors; Zabud son of Nathan was a priest and adviser to the king;

    6. 1 Kgs 4:6Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.

    7. 1 Kgs 4:7Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year,

    8. 1 Kgs 4:8and these were their names: Ben-hur in the hill country of Ephraim;

    9. 1 Kgs 4:9Ben-deker in Makaz, in Shaalbim, in Beth-shemesh, and in Elon-beth-hanan;

    10. 1 Kgs 4:10Ben-hesed in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);

    11. 1 Kgs 4:11Ben-abinadab in Naphath-dor (Taphath, a daughter of Solomon, was his wife);

    12. 1 Kgs 4:12Baana son of Ahilud in Taanach, in Megiddo, and in all of Beth-shean next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah and on past Jokmeam;

    13. 1 Kgs 4:13Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);

    14. 1 Kgs 4:14Ahinadab son of Iddo in Mahanaim;

    15. 1 Kgs 4:15Ahimaaz in Naphtali (he had married Basemath, a daughter of Solomon);

    16. 1 Kgs 4:16Baana son of Hushai in Asher and in Aloth;

    17. 1 Kgs 4:17Jehoshaphat son of Paruah in Issachar;

    18. 1 Kgs 4:18Shimei son of Ela in Benjamin;

    19. 1 Kgs 4:19Geber son of Uri in the land of Gilead, including the territories of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. There was also one governor in the land of Judah.

    20. 1 Kgs 4:20The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.

    21. 1 Kgs 4:21And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

    22. 1 Kgs 4:22Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,

    23. 1 Kgs 4:23ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.

    24. 1 Kgs 4:24For Solomon had dominion over everything west of the Euphrates—over all the kingdoms from Tiphsah to Gaza—and he had peace on all sides.

    25. 1 Kgs 4:25Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.

    26. 1 Kgs 4:26Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.

    27. 1 Kgs 4:27Each month the governors in turn provided food for King Solomon and all who came to his table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.

    28. 1 Kgs 4:28Each one also brought to the required place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and other horses.

    29. 1 Kgs 4:29And God gave Solomon wisdom, exceedingly deep insight, and understanding beyond measure, like the sand on the seashore.

    30. 1 Kgs 4:30Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.

    31. 1 Kgs 4:31He was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread throughout the surrounding nations.

    32. 1 Kgs 4:32Solomon composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.

    33. 1 Kgs 4:33He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.

    34. 1 Kgs 4:34So men of all nations came to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, sent by all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

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    • 291 Kings 3:12behold, I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been another like you, nor will there ever be.
    • 29James 3:17But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.
    • 41 Kings 2:35And the king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada in Joab’s place over the army, and he appointed Zadok the priest in Abiathar’s place.
    • 291 Kings 4:20The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.
    • 21Genesis 15:18On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
    • 241 Chronicles 22:9But a son will be born to you who will be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side; for his name will be Solomon, and I will grant to Israel peace and quiet during his reign.
    • 25Micah 4:4And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.
    • 29Ecclesiastes 2:26To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
    • 30Daniel 5:11–12There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the days of your father he was found to have insight, intelligence, and wisdom like that of the gods. Your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, appointed him chief of the magicians, enchanters, astrologers, and diviners. Your own father, the king,
    • 342 Chronicles 9:23All the kings of the earth sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
    • 21Joshua 1:4Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—and west as far as the Great Sea.
    • 28Esther 8:10Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers riding on swift horses bred from the royal mares.
    • 292 Chronicles 1:10–12Now grant me wisdom and knowledge, so that I may lead this people. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?”
    • 29Isaiah 60:5Then you will look and be radiant, and your heart will tremble and swell with joy, because the riches of the sea will be brought to you, and the wealth of the nations will come to you.
    • 29Proverbs 2:6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
    • 30Genesis 25:6But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.

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