1 Kings 4:7-28

Bible Text

[7] Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year. [8] These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim; [9] Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan; [10] Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him [pertained] Socoh, and all the land of Hepher); [11] Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife); [12] Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam; [13] Ben Geber, in Ramoth-gilead (to him [pertained] the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; [even] to him [pertained] the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and brazen bars); [14] Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; [15] Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife); [16] Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; [17] Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; [18] Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; [19] Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and [he was] the only officer who was in the land. [20] Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. [21] Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life. [22] Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal, [23] ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl. [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 peace on all sides round about him. [25] Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. [26] Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. [27] Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking. [28] 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.

Places in this passage

1 Kings 4:7-28 mentions Abel-meholah, Argob, Bashan, Beersheba, Beth-shan, Beth-shemesh, Dan, East, Egypt, Euphrates, Gaza, Gilead, Havvoth-jair, Jezreel, Lebanon, Mahanaim, Megiddo, Naphoth-dor, Ramoth-gilead, Shaalbim, Socoh, Taanach and Tiphsah.

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