First Book of Kings, Chapter 4

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Chapter 4 of 1 Kings—New World Translation (NWT)

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1. ¶ And King Solʹo·mon continued king over all Israel.¹
2. And these are the princes^[a]2 that he had: Az·a·riʹah^[b] the son of Zaʹdok,³ the priest;
3. El·i·horʹeph and A·hiʹjah, the sons of Shiʹsha, secretaries;⁴ Je·hoshʹa·phat⁵ the son of A·hiʹlud, the recorder;^[c]
4. and Be·naiʹah⁶ the son of Je·hoiʹa·da was over the army,⁷ and Zaʹdok and A·biʹa·thar⁸ were priests;
5. and Az·a·riʹah the son of Nathan⁹ was over the deputies, and Zaʹbud the son of Nathan was a priest, the friend¹⁰ of the king;
6. and A·hiʹshar was over the household, and Ad·o·niʹram¹¹ the son of Abʹda, over those conscripted for forced labor.¹²
7. ¶ And Solʹo·mon had twelve deputies over all Israel, and they provided the king and his household with food. It would devolve upon each one to provide the food one month in the year.¹³
8. And these were their names: The son of Hur, in the mountainous region of Eʹphra·im;¹⁴
9. the son of Deʹker, in Maʹkaz and in Sha·alʹbim¹⁵ and Beth-sheʹmesh¹⁶ and Eʹlon-beth-haʹnan;
10. the son of Heʹsed, in A·rubʹboth (he had Soʹcoh and all the land of Heʹpher);¹⁷
11. the son of A·binʹa·dab, all the mountain ridge of Dor¹⁸ (Taʹphath, Solʹo·mon’s daughter, herself became his wife);
12. Baʹa·na the son of A·hiʹlud, in Taʹa·nach¹⁹ and Me·gidʹdo²⁰ and all Beth-sheʹan,²¹ which is beside Zarʹe·than²² below Jezʹre·el,²³ from Beth-sheʹan to Aʹbel-me·hoʹlah²⁴ to the region of Jokʹme·am;²⁵
13. the son of Geʹber, in Raʹmoth-gilʹe·ad²⁶ (he had the tent villages of Jaʹir^[d]27 the son of Ma·nasʹseh, which are in Gilʹe·ad;²⁸ he had the region of Arʹgob,²⁹ which is in Baʹshan:³⁰ sixty large cities with wall and copper bar);
14. A·hinʹa·dab the son of Idʹdo, in Ma·ha·naʹim;³¹
15. A·himʹa·az, in Naphʹta·li³² (he, too, took Basʹe·math, Solʹo·mon’s daughter, as a wife);³³
16. Baʹa·na the son of Huʹshai, in Ashʹer³⁴ and Be·aʹloth;
17. Je·hoshʹa·phat the son of Pa·ruʹah, in Isʹsa·char;³⁵
18. Shimʹe·i³⁶ the son of Eʹla, in Benjamin;³⁷
19. Geʹber the son of Uʹri, in the land of Gilʹe·ad,³⁸ the land of Siʹhon³⁹ the king of the Amʹor·ites,⁴⁰ and of Og⁴¹ the king of Baʹshan,⁴² and there was one deputy [over all the other deputies] that were in the land.
20. ¶ Judah and Israel were many, like the grains of sand that are by the sea for multitude,⁴³ eating and drinking and rejoicing.^[e]44
21. ¶ As for Solʹo·mon, he proved to be ruler over all the kingdoms from the River^[f]45 to the land of the Phi·lisʹtines and to the boundary of Egypt. They were bringing gifts and serving Solʹo·mon all the days of his life.⁴⁶
22. ¶ And Solʹo·mon’s food for each day^[g] regularly proved to be thirty cor^[h]47 measures of fine flour and sixty cor measures of flour,
23. ten fat cattle and twenty pastured cattle and a hundred sheep, besides some stags⁴⁸ and gazelles⁴⁹ and roebucks and fattened cuckoos.
24. For he was holding in subjection everything this side of the River,⁵⁰ from Tiphʹsah to Gaʹza,⁵¹ even all the kings this side of the River;⁵² and peace⁵³ itself became his in every region of his, all around.^[i]
25. And Judah⁵⁴ and Israel continued to dwell in security,⁵⁵ everyone under his own vine and under his own fig tree,⁵⁶ from Dan to Beʹer-sheʹba,⁵⁷ all the days of Solʹo·mon.
26. ¶ And Solʹo·mon came to have forty thousand stalls of horses⁵⁸ for his chariots⁵⁹ and twelve thousand horsemen.
27. ¶ And these deputies⁶⁰ supplied food to King Solʹo·mon and everyone approaching the table of King Solʹo·mon, each one in his month. They left nothing lacking.
28. And the barley and the straw for the horses and for the teams of horses⁶¹ they kept bringing to wherever the place might prove to be, each one according to his commission.⁶²
29. ¶ And God^[j] continued giving Solʹo·mon wisdom⁶³ and understanding^[k]64 in very great measure and a broadness of heart,⁶⁵ like the sand that is upon the seashore.⁶⁶
30. And Solʹo·mon’s wisdom was vaster⁶⁷ than the wisdom of all the Orientals^[l]68 and than all the wisdom of Egypt.⁶⁹
31. And he was wiser than any other man,^[m] than Eʹthan⁷⁰ the Ezʹra·hite and Heʹman⁷¹ and Calʹcol⁷² and Darʹda the sons of Maʹhol; and his fame^[n] came to be in all the nations all around.⁷³
32. And he could speak three thousand proverbs,⁷⁴ and his songs⁷⁵ came to be a thousand and five.^[o]
33. And he would speak about the trees, from the cedar that is in Lebʹa·non⁷⁶ to the hyssop⁷⁷ that is coming forth on the wall; and he would speak about the beasts⁷⁸ and about the flying creatures⁷⁹ and about the moving things⁸⁰ and about the fishes.⁸¹
34. And they kept coming from all the peoples to hear Solʹo·mon’s wisdom,⁸² even from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.⁸³

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FOOTNOTES

1. ^ “The princes.” Heb., has·sa·rimʹ; Lat., prinʹci·pes.
2. ^ Heb., ʽAzar·yaʹhu.
3. ^ Or, “remembrancer.”
4. ^ Or, “he had Havvoth-jair.”
5. ^ M ends chapter 4 here.
6. ^ That is, the Euphrates.
7. ^ Lit., “Solomon’s bread for one day.”
8. ^ A cor equaled 220 L (200 dry qt). See Eze 45:14.
9. ^ “And peace itself became his at the instance of all his servants all around,” many Heb. mss and editions.
10. ^ “God,” MSyVg; TLXXSy^Hexapla, “Jehovah.”
11. ^ Or, “discernment.”
12. ^ Lit., “all the sons of the East.”
13. ^ Or, “mankind.” Lit., “the earthling man.” Heb., ha·ʼa·dhamʹ.
14. ^ Lit., “name.”
15. ^ “A thousand and five,” MSyVg; LXXVg^{12 mss}, “five thousand.”

REFERENCES

1. ^ 1Ki 1:20; 2Ch 9:30; Ec 1:12
2. ^ Ex 18:21
3. ^ 1Ch 6:8; 27:17; Eze 44:15
4. ^ 2Sa 8:17; 1Ch 27:32
5. ^ 2Sa 8:16; 20:24; 1Ch 18:15
6. ^ 1Ki 1:8; 1Ch 27:5
7. ^ 1Ki 2:35
8. ^ 1Ki 2:26
9. ^ 2Sa 12:1; 1Ki 1:10
10. ^ 2Sa 15:37; 1Ch 27:33
11. ^ 2Sa 20:24; 1Ki 5:14; 12:18
12. ^ 1Ki 9:15
13. ^ 1Ch 27:1
14. ^ Jos 17:18
15. ^ Jos 19:42
16. ^ 1Sa 6:12
17. ^ Jos 12:17
18. ^ Jos 12:23
19. ^ Jos 17:11
20. ^ 2Ki 23:29
21. ^ 1Sa 31:10
22. ^ Jos 3:16
23. ^ 1Ki 18:46
24. ^ 1Ki 19:16
25. ^ Jos 21:34
26. ^ De 4:43; Jos 20:8; 1Ki 22:3; 2Ki 9:1
27. ^ Nu 32:41; De 3:14
28. ^ Nu 32:1; Jos 22:9
29. ^ De 3:4
30. ^ Nu 21:33; Jos 13:11; Ps 22:12
31. ^ Ge 32:2; 2Sa 2:8; 17:24
32. ^ Jos 19:32
33. ^ 1Sa 18:18
34. ^ Jos 19:24
35. ^ Jos 19:17
36. ^ 1Ki 1:8
37. ^ Jos 18:11
38. ^ Jos 17:1
39. ^ De 2:26
40. ^ Nu 21:21
41. ^ De 3:4
42. ^ De 1:4
43. ^ Ge 22:17; Pr 14:28
44. ^ Ec 2:24; 9:7
45. ^ Ge 15:18; Ex 23:31; De 11:24; 2Sa 8:3; 1Ch 19:16; Ps 72:8
46. ^ Ps 72:10
47. ^ 1Ki 5:11
48. ^ De 14:5; La 1:6
49. ^ De 12:15; 15:22
50. ^ Ge 2:14; De 1:7; Jos 1:4
51. ^ Ge 10:19
52. ^ De 28:13
53. ^ 1Ki 5:4; 1Ch 22:9; Ps 72:7
54. ^ 2Ki 8:19
55. ^ Is 60:18
56. ^ Mc 4:4; Zc 3:10
57. ^ Jg 20:1; 2Sa 17:11; 24:15
58. ^ De 17:16; 2Sa 8:4; 1Ki 10:25; 2Ch 1:17
59. ^ 2Ch 1:14
60. ^ 1Ki 4:7
61. ^ Es 8:14; Mc 1:13
62. ^ 1Co 14:40
63. ^ 1Ki 10:23; 2Ch 1:10; Pr 2:6
64. ^ Pr 4:7
65. ^ Ps 119:32
66. ^ Ge 41:49
67. ^ Lu 11:31; Col 2:3
68. ^ Ge 25:6; Jb 1:3; Mt 2:1
69. ^ Is 19:11; Ac 7:22
70. ^ 1Ch 2:8; Ps 89:superscription
71. ^ Ps 88:superscription
72. ^ 1Ch 2:6
73. ^ 1Ki 10:1, 7
74. ^ Pr 1:1; Ec 12:9
75. ^ Sg 1:1
76. ^ 2Ki 19:23; Ps 92:12
77. ^ Ex 12:22; Nu 19:18; Ps 51:7; Heb 9:19
78. ^ Ge 1:24; Pr 30:30
79. ^ Ge 1:20; Jb 12:7; Pr 7:23; 30:19
80. ^ Ge 1:25; Pr 6:6; 30:25
81. ^ Ge 1:21
82. ^ Pr 13:20
83. ^ 2Ch 9:1, 23

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