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1 Kings 4:1
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King Shlomo was king over all Yisra'el.
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1 Kings 4:2
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These were the princes whom he had: `Azaryah the son of Tzadok, the kohen;
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1 Kings 4:3
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Elichoref and Achiyah, the sons of Shisha, Torah-teachers; Yehoshafat the son of Achilud, the recorder;
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1 Kings 4:4
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and Benayah the son of Yehoiada was over the army; and Tzadok and Avyatar were kohanim;
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1 Kings 4:5
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and `Azaryah the son of Natan was over the officers; and Zavud the son of Natan was chief minister, [and] the king's friend;
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1 Kings 4:6
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and Achishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of `Avda was over the men subject to forced labor.
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1 Kings 4:7
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Shlomo had twelve officers over all Yisra'el, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.
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1 Kings 4:8
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These are their names: Ben-Hur, in the hill country of Efrayim;
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1 Kings 4:9
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Ben-Deker, in Makatz, and in Sha`alvim, and Beth Shemesh, and Elon-Beit-Chanan;
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1 Kings 4:10
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Ben-Chesed, in Arubbot (to him [pertained] Sokho, and all the land of Chefer);
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1 Kings 4:11
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Ben-Avinadav, in all the height of Dor (he had Tafat the daughter of Shlomo as wife);
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1 Kings 4:12
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Ba`anah the son of Achilud, in Ta`nakh and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Tzaretan, beneath Yizre`el, from Beth Shean to Avel-Mecholah, as far as beyond Yokme`am;
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1 Kings 4:13
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Ben-Gever, in Ramot Gil`ad (to him [pertained] the towns of Ya'ir the son of Menasheh, which are in Gil`ad; [even] to him [pertained] the region of Argov, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and brazen bars);
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1 Kings 4:14
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Achinadav the son of `Iddo, in Machanayim;
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1 Kings 4:15
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Achima`atz, in Naftali (he also took Basemat the daughter of Shlomo as wife);
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1 Kings 4:16
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Ba`anah the son of Chushai, in Asher and Be`alot;
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1 Kings 4:17
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Yehoshafat the son of Paru'ach, in Yissakhar;
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1 Kings 4:18
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Shim`i the son of Ela, in Binyamin;
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1 Kings 4:19
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Gever the son of Uri, in the land of Gil`ad, the country of Sichon king of the Amori and of `Og king of Bashan; and [he was] the only officer who was in the land.
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1 Kings 4:20
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Yehudah and Yisra'el were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
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1 Kings 4:21
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Shlomo ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Pelishtim, and to the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Shlomo all the days of his life.
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1 Kings 4:22
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Shlomo's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,
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1 Kings 4:23
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ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.
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1 Kings 4:24
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For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the River, from Tifsach even to `Aza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had shalom on all sides round about him.
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1 Kings 4:25
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Yehudah and Yisra'el lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Be'er-Sheva, all the days of Shlomo.
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1 Kings 4:26
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Shlomo had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
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1 Kings 4:27
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Those officers provided food for king Shlomo, and for all who came to king Shlomo's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.
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1 Kings 4:28
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Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they to the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his charge.
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1 Kings 4:29
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God gave Shlomo wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.
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1 Kings 4:30
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Shlomo's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
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1 Kings 4:31
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For he was wiser than all men; than Etan the Ezrachite, and Heman, and Kalkol, and Darda, the sons of Machol: and his fame was in all the nations round about.
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1 Kings 4:32
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He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five.
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1 Kings 4:33
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He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Levanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.
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1 Kings 4:34
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There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Shlomo, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
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