1 King 4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

1 Kings 4Solomon’s Administrative Officers

1King Solomon was king over all Israel,

2and these were his high officials: Azariah son of Zadok was the priest;

3Elihoreph and Ahijah sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was recorder;

4Benaiah son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

5Solomon was sovereign over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, even to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.]]

22Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of choice flour and sixty cors of meal,

23ten fat oxen and twenty pasture-fed cattle, one hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl.

24 and he had peace on all sides.

25Judg 20.1; Jer 23.6; Mic 4.4; Zech 3.10During Solomon’s lifetime Judah and Israel lived in safety, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all of them under their vines and fig trees.

261 Kings 10.26; 2 Chr 1.14Solomon also had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots and twelve thousand horsemen.

27v 7Those officials supplied provisions for King Solomon and for all who came to King Solomon’s table, each one in his month; they let nothing be lacking.

28They also brought to the required place barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds, each according to his charge.

Fame of Solomon’s Wisdom

29 1 Kings 3.12 God gave Solomon very great wisdom, discernment, and breadth of understanding as vast as the sand on the seashore,

30Gen 25.6; Acts 7.22so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.

311 Kings 3.12; 1 Chr 2.6; 6.33; 15.19He was wiser than anyone else, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, children of Mahol; his fame spread throughout all the surrounding nations.

32Prov 1.1; Eccl 12.9; Song 1.1He composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.

33He would speak of trees, from the cedar that is in the Lebanon to the hyssop that grows in the wall; he would speak of animals, and birds, and reptiles, and fish.

341 Kings 10.1; 2 Chr 9.23People came from all the nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.