| 1 | King Solomon was king over all Israel. | 1Ki 11:13 1Ki 11:35 1Ki 11:36 1Ki 12:19 1Ki 12:20 2Sa 5:5 1Ch 12:38 2Ch 9:30 Ec 1:12 |
| 2 | These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest; | Ex 18:21 2Sa 8:15-18 2Sa 20:23-26 1Co 12:28 |
| 3 | Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder; | 2Sa 20:25 |
| 4 | and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; | 1Ki 2:35 |
| 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; | 1Ki 1:10-53 2Sa 7:2 2Sa 12:1-15 2Sa 12:25-15 |
| 6 | and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor. | 1Ki 12:18 2Sa 20:24 |
| 7 | Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year. | 1Ch 27:1-15 |
| 8 | These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim; | Jg 17:1 Jg 19:1 |
| 9 | Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan; | Jsh 19:42 |
| 10 | Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him [pertained] Socoh, and all the land of Hepher); | Jsh 15:35 |
| 11 | Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife); | Jsh 12:23 Jsh 17:11 Jg 1:27 |
| 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; | Jsh 17:11 Jg 5:19 |
| 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); | 1Ki 22:3 Dt 4:43 Jsh 20:8 Jsh 21:38 2Ki 9:1 2Ki 9:14 |
| 14 | Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; | Gn 32:2 2Sa 2:8 2Sa 17:24 2Sa 17:27 |
| 15 | Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife); | Jsh 19:32-39 |
| 16 | Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; | Jsh 19:24-31 |
| 17 | Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; | Jsh 19:17-23 |
| 18 | Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; | 1Ki 1:8 Zc 12:13 |
| 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. | Nm 21:21-35 Dt 2:26-37 Dt 3:1-17 Jsh 13:9-12 |
| 20 | Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. | 1Ki 3:8 Gn 13:16 Gn 15:5 Gn 22:17 Pr 14:28 |
| 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. | 1Ki 4:24 Gn 15:18 Ex 23:31 Dt 11:24 Jsh 1:4 2Ch 9:26-31 Ezr 4:20 Ps 72:8-11 |
| 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. | Ne 5:17 Ne 5:18 |
| 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. | Gn 10:19 Jg 16:1 |
| 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. | Isa 60:18 Jer 23:5 Jer 23:6 Jer 33:15 Jer 33:16 Ezk 38:11 |
| 26 | Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. | 1Ki 10:25 1Ki 10:26 Dt 17:16 2Sa 8:4 2Ch 1:14 2Ch 9:25 Ps 20:7 |
| 27 | Those officers provided victuals 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. | Es 8:10 Es 8:14 Mic 1:13 |
| 29 | God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore. | 1Ki 3:12 1Ki 3:28 1Ki 10:23 1Ki 10:24 2Ch 1:10-12 Ps 119:34 Pr 2:6 Ec 1:16 Ec 2:26 Jm 1:5 Jm 1:17 Jm 3:17 |
| 30 | Solomon`s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. | Gn 25:6 Jb 1:3 Dn 1:20 Dn 4:7 Dn 5:11 Dn 5:12 Mt 2:1 Mt 2:16 |
| 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. | 1Ki 3:12 Mt 12:42 Lk 11:31 Col 2:3 |
| 32 | He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five. | Pr 1:1-31 Ec 12:9 Mt 13:35 |
| 33 | He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon 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. | Nm 24:6 2Ki 19:23 Ps 92:12 |
| 34 | There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom. | 1Ki 10:1 2Ch 9:1 2Ch 9:23 Isa 2:2 Zc 8:23 |
