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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1King Solomon ruled over Israel, |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and these were his officials: Azariah son of Zadok, priest; |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha, secretaries; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud, court historian; |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Benaiah son of Jehoiada, in charge of the army; Zadok and Abiathar, priests; |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Azariah son of Nathan, in charge of the deputies; Zabud son of Nathan, a priest and adviser to the king; |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Ahishar, in charge of the palace; and Adoniram son of Abda, in charge of forced labor. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Solomon had 12 deputies for all Israel. They provided food for the king and his household; each one made provision for one month out of the year. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim; |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Ben-deker, in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan; |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (he had Socoh and the whole land of Hepher); |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Ben-abinadab, in all Naphath-dor (Taphath daughter of Solomon was his wife); |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Baana son of Ahilud, in Taanach, Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the other side of Jokmeam; |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (he had the villages of Jair son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, 60 great cities with walls and bronze bars); |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Ahinadab son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also had married a daughter of Solomon--Basemath); |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Baana son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Jehoshaphat son of Paruah, in Issachar; |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Shimei son of Ela, in Benjamin; |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Geber son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. There was one deputy in the land of Judah. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea; they were eating, drinking, and rejoicing. |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines and as far as the border of Egypt. They offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Solomon's provisions for one day were 150 bushels of fine flour and 300 bushels of meal, |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23 10 fattened oxen, 20 range oxen, and 100 sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and pen-fed poultry, |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24for he had dominion over everything west of the Euphrates from Tiphsah to Gaza and over all the kings west of the Euphrates. He had peace on all his surrounding borders. |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Throughout Solomon's reign, Judah and Israel lived in safety from Dan to Beer-sheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree. |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Solomon had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen. |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Each of those deputies for a month in turn provided food for King Solomon and for everyone who came to King Solomon's table. They neglected nothing. |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Each man brought the barley and the straw for the chariot teams and the other horses to the required place according to his assignment. |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29God gave Solomon wisdom, very great insight, and understanding as vast as the sand on the seashore. |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt. |
31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31He was wiser than anyone--wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, sons of Mahol. His reputation extended to all the surrounding nations. |
32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Solomon composed 3,000 proverbs, and his songs numbered 1,005. |
33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33He described trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing out of the wall. He also taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish. |
34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34People came from everywhere, sent by every king on earth who had heard of his wisdom, to listen to Solomon's wisdom. |
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