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Passage Lookup: 1 Kings 4-5

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1 Kings 4:1
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Now King Solomon was king over all Israel.
1 Kings 4:2
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These were his officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was (C1)the priest;
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1 Kings 4:3
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Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were scribes; (C1)Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the secretary;
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1 Kings 4:4
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and (C1)Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and (C2)Abiathar were priests;
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1 Kings 4:5
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and Azariah the son of Nathan was over (C1)the deputies; and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, was the king's confidant;
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1 Kings 4:6
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and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the forced labor.
1 Kings 4:7
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Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household; each deputy had to provide food for a month in the year.
1 Kings 4:8
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And these were their names: Ben-hur, in the (C1)hill country of Ephraim;
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1 Kings 4:9
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Ben-deker in Makaz and (C1)Shaalbim, and (C2)Beth-shemesh, and Elonbeth-hanan;
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1 Kings 4:10
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Ben-hesed in Arubboth ((C1)Socoh was his and all the land of (C2)Hepher);
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1 Kings 4:11
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Ben-abinadab in all (F1)the (C1)hills of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);
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1 Kings 4:12
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Baana the son of Ahilud in (C1)Taanach and Megiddo, and all (C2)Beth-shean which is beside (C3)Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to (C4)Abel-meholah as far as the other side of (C5)Jokmeam;
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1 Kings 4:13
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Ben-geber in (C1)Ramoth-gilead ((C2)the villages of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead were his: (C3)the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);
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1 Kings 4:14
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Ahinadab the son of Iddo in (C1)Mahanaim;
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1 Kings 4:15
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(C1)Ahimaaz in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon);
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1 Kings 4:16
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Baana the son of (C1)Hushai in Asher and (F1)Bealoth;
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1 Kings 4:17
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Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah in Issachar;
1 Kings 4:18
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(C1)Shimei the son of Ela in Benjamin;
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1 Kings 4:19
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Geber the son of Uri in the land of Gilead, (C1)the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only deputy who was in the land.
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1 Kings 4:20
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(C1)Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the (F1)seashore in abundance; they were eating, drinking, and rejoicing.
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1 Kings 4:21
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(F1)(C1)Now Solomon was ruling over all the kingdoms (C2)from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt; (C3)they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
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1 Kings 4:22
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Solomon's (F1)provision for one day was (F2)thirty kors of fine flour and (F3)sixty kors of meal,
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1 Kings 4:23
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ten fat oxen, twenty (F1)pasture-fed oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened geese.
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1 Kings 4:24
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For he was ruling over everything (F1)west of the Euphrates River, from Tiphsah even to (C1)Gaza, (C2)over all the kings (F1)west of the River; and (C3)he had peace on all sides surrounding him.
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1 Kings 4:25
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(C1)So Judah and Israel lived securely, everyone under his vine and his fig tree, (C2)from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
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1 Kings 4:26
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(C1)Solomon had (F1)forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
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1 Kings 4:27
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And those deputies provided food for King Solomon and all who came to King Solomon's table, each in his month; they allowed nothing to be lacking.
1 Kings 4:28
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They also brought barley and straw for the war horses and (C1)baggage horses to the place where it was required, each deputy according to his duty.
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1 Kings 4:29
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Now (C1)God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of (F1)mind, (C2)like the sand that is on the seashore.
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1 Kings 4:30
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Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all (C1)the (F1)people of the east and (C2)all the wisdom of Egypt.
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1 Kings 4:31
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For (C1)he was wiser than all other people, more than (C2)Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, (C3)Calcol, and (F1)Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his (F2)fame was known in all the surrounding nations.
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1 Kings 4:32
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(C1)He also told three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered 1,005.
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1 Kings 4:33
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He told of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he told also of animals, birds, crawling things, and fish.
1 Kings 4:34
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People (C1)came from all the (F1)nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.
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1 Kings 5:1
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(F1)(C1)Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for (C2)Hiram had (F2)always been a friend of David.
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1 Kings 5:2
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Then (C1)Solomon sent word to Hiram, saying,
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1 Kings 5:3
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"You know that (C1)David my father was unable to build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the wars which surrounded him, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
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1 Kings 5:4
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"But now (C1)the LORD my God has secured me rest on every side; there is neither adversary nor (F1)misfortune.
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1 Kings 5:5
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"So behold, (C1)I (F1)intend to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, just as the LORD spoke to David my father, saying, 'Your son, whom I will put on your throne in your place, he will build the house for My name.'
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1 Kings 5:6
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"Now then, issue orders that they cut (C1)cedars from Lebanon for me, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants in accordance with all that you say, for you yourself know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians."
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1 Kings 5:7
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When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he greatly rejoiced; and he said, "Blessed be the LORD today, who has given to David a wise son over this great people."
1 Kings 5:8
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So Hiram sent word to Solomon, saying, "I have heard the message which you sent me; I will do everything you wish concerning the cedar and juniper timber.
1 Kings 5:9
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"My servants will bring the timbers down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will have them made into rafts to go by sea (C1)to the place where you (F1)direct me, and I will have them broken up there, and you will carry them away. Then (C2)you shall do what I wish, by giving food to my household."
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1 Kings 5:10
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So (F1)Hiram (F2)gave Solomon all that he wished of the cedar and juniper timber.
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1 Kings 5:11
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(C1)Solomon then gave (F1)Hiram (F2)twenty thousand kors of wheat as food for his household, and (F3)twenty kors of pure oil; this is what Solomon would give Hiram year by year.
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1 Kings 5:12
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And (C1)the LORD gave wisdom to Solomon, just as He (F1)promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a covenant.
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1 Kings 5:13
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Now (C1)King Solomon (F1)conscripted forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers numbered thirty thousand men.
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1 Kings 5:14
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Then he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts; they were in Lebanon for a month, and two months at home. And (C1)Adoniram was in charge of the forced laborers.
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1 Kings 5:15
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Now (C1)Solomon had seventy thousand porters, and eighty thousand stonemasons in the mountains,
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1 Kings 5:16
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(C1)besides Solomon's 3,300 chief deputies who were in charge of the (F1)project and ruled over the people who were doing the work.
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1 Kings 5:17
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Then (C1)the king issued orders, and they quarried large stones, valuable stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones.
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1 Kings 5:18
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So Solomon's builders and (F1)Hiram's builders and (C1)the Gebalites (F2)cut the stones, and they prepared the timbers and the stones to build the house.
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