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1 Kings - ch 4 v 21 - 34
- And Solomon ruled over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
- And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,
- ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl.
- For he had dominion over all on this side the river, from Tiphsah as far as Gazah, over all the kings on this side the river; and he had peace on all sides round about.
- And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
- And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
- And 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 wanting.
- And the barley, and the straw for the horses and coursers, they brought to the place where the superintendents were, every man according to his charge.
- And God gave Solomon wisdom and very great understanding and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.
- And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
- 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.
- And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.
- And he spoke of the trees, from the cedar-tree that is on Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of cattle, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
- And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.
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