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1 Kings 4:13-27 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

13. Ben-Geber was in Ramoth-Gilead; the villages of Jair, the son of Manasseh which are in the Gilead were his, and the region of Argob which is in the Bashan, sixty great cities, with walls having crossbars of bronze, were his.

14. Ahinadab the son of Iddo was in Mahanaim.

15. Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he moreover also had taken Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife.

16. Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and Bealoth.

17. Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah was in Issachar.

18. Shimei the son of Ela was in Benjamin.

19. Geber the son of Uri was in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon, the king of the Amorites, and of Og, the king of Bashan; one governor which was over the land.

20. Judah and Israel were as many as the sand which is on the seashore in abundance, eating and drinking and rejoicing!

21. Now Solomon was ruling over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and up to the border of Egypt, who were bringing tribute and were serving Solomon all the days of his life.

22. The food of Solomon for one day was thirty dry measures of choice meal and sixty dry measures of flour;

23. ten stall-fed oxen and twenty pasture-fed oxen and a hundred sheep, besides deer and buck gazelles and roebucks and well-fed fowls.

24. For he was ruling over all the west of the River from Tiphsah up to Gaza, over all the kings west of the River; and he had peace from every side all around.

25. Judah and Israel lived in security, each man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan as far as Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

26. Now Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his war chariots and twelve thousand horsemen.

27. These governors sustained King Solomon and all who came near to the table of King Solomon, each in his month; they did not omit anything.

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