These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Kings 4
Tanakh 34 verses
- 1 And was over all .
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And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the ;
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Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;
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and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
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- 5 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister and the king’s friend;
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and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy.
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And had twelve officers over all , who provided victuals for the and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.
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And these are their names: The son of Hur, in the hill-country of ;
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the son of Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;
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the son of Hesed, in Arubboth; to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher;
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the son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of to wife;
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- 12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to -meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;
- 13 the son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the villages of Jair the son of , which are in ; even to him pertained the region of Argob, which is in , threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars;
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Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
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Ahimaaz, in ; he also took Basemath the daughter of to wife;
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Baana the son of Hushai, in and Bealoth;
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Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in ;
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Shimei the son of Ela, in ;
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Geber the son of Uri, in the land of , the country of Sihon of the Amorites and of Og of ; and one officer that was [over all the officers] in the land.
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- 20 and were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
- 21 And ruled over all the kingdoms from the River unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of ; they brought presents, and served all the days of his life.
- 22 And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal;
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ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl.
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- 24 For he had dominion over all the region on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River; and he had on all sides round about him.
- 25 And and dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from even to Beer-sheba, all the days of .
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And had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
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- 27 And those officers provided victual for , and for all that came unto Solomon’s table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.
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Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they unto the place where it should be, every man according to his charge.
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- 29 And gave wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of , even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.
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And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of .
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- 31 For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations round about.
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And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.
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And he spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
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And there came of all peoples to the wisdom of , from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
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