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1 Kings 4:8-26 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

8. And these are their names: Benhur, on mount Ephraim;

9. Bendeker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and in Beth-shemesh, and in Elon, and in Beth-hanan;

10. Benhesed, in Arubboth: his was Socoh and the entire land of Hepher;

11. Benabinadab, to whom was all of Naphath-Dor, who had Taphath, the daughter of Solomon, as wife;

12. Baana, the son of Ahilud, who was reigning in Taanach, and Megiddo, and all of Bethshean, which is beside Zarethan and below Jezreel, from Bethshean as far as Abelmeholah, opposite Jokmeam;

13. Bengeber, in Ramoth Gilead, who had the town of Jair, the son of Manasseh, in Gilead; the same was first in the entire region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls that had bronze bars;

14. Ahinadab, the son of Iddo, who was first in Mahanaim;

15. Ahimaaz, in Naphtali, and he also had Basemath, the daughter of Solomon, in marriage;

16. Baana, the son of Hushai, in Asher and in 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, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and of Og, king of Bashan, over all who were in that land.

20. Judah and Israel were innumerable, like the sand of the sea in multitude: eating and drinking, and rejoicing.

21. Now Solomon had, in his dominion, all the kingdoms, from the river to the land of the Philistines, even to the border of Egypt. And they offered gifts to him, and they served him all the days of his life.

22. And the provisions of Solomon, for each day, were thirty cor of fine wheat flour, and sixty cor of meal,

23. ten fattened oxen, and twenty oxen from the pastures, and one hundred rams, aside from the venison of stags, roe deer, and gazelles, and fattened poultry.

24. For he had obtained the entire region which was beyond the river, from Tiphsah as far as Gaza, and all the kings of those regions. And he had peace on every side all around.

25. And so, Judah and Israel were living without any fear, each one under his own vine and under his own fig tree, from Dan as far as Beersheba, during all the days of Solomon.

26. And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of chariot horses, and twelve thousand riding horses.

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