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1 Kings - ch 4 v 21 - 34
- And Solomon had under him all the kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines,. even to the border of Egypt: and they brought him presents, and served him, all the days of his life.
- And the provision of Solomon for each day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
- Ten fat oxen and twenty out of the pastures, and a hundred rams, besides venison of harts, roes, and buffles, and fatted fowls.
- For he had all the country which was beyond the river, from Thaphsa to Gazan, and all the kings of those countries: and he had peace on every side round about.
- And Juda and Israel dwelt without any fear, every one under his vine, and under his fig tree, from Dan to Bersabee, all the days of Solomon.
- And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of chariot horses, and twelve thou- sand for the saddle.
- And the foresaid governors of the king fed them: and they furnished the necessaries also for king Solomon's table, with great care in their time.
- They brought barley also and straw for the horses, and beasts, to the place where the king was, according as it was appointed them.
- And God gave to Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart as the sand that is on the sea shore.
- And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the Orientals, and of the Egyptians,
- And he was wiser than all men: wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Dorda the sons of Mahol, and he was renowned in all nations round about.
- Solomon also spoke three thousand parables: and his poems were a thousand and five.
- And he treated about trees from the cedar that is in Libanus, unto the hyssop that cometh out of the wall: and he discoursed of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
- And they came from all nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who heard of his wisdom.
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