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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "1KI-4:1",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.1",
        "text": "And king Solomon was king over all Israel."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "1KI-4:2",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.2",
        "text": "And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "1KI-4:3",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.3",
        "text": "Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "1KI-4:4",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.4",
        "text": "and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "1KI-4:5",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.5",
        "text": "and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, [and] the king`s friend;"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "1KI-4:6",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.6",
        "text": "and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to taskwork."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "1KI-4:7",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.7",
        "text": "And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "1KI-4:8",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.8",
        "text": "And these are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "1KI-4:9",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.9",
        "text": "Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "1KI-4:10",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.10",
        "text": "Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him [pertained] Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "1KI-4:11",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.11",
        "text": "Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife);"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "1KI-4:12",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.12",
        "text": "Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "1KI-4:13",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.13",
        "text": "Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (to him [pertained] the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; [even] to him [pertained] the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars);"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "1KI-4:14",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.14",
        "text": "Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "1KI-4:15",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.15",
        "text": "Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon to wife);"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "1KI-4:16",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.16",
        "text": "Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "1KI-4:17",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.17",
        "text": "Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "1KI-4:18",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.18",
        "text": "Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "1KI-4:19",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.19",
        "text": "Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and [he was] the only officer that was in the land."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "1KI-4:20",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.20",
        "text": "Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "1KI-4:21",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.21",
        "text": "And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "1KI-4:22",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.22",
        "text": "And Solomon`s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "1KI-4:23",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.23",
        "text": "ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "1KI-4:24",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.24",
        "text": "For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides round about him."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "1KI-4:25",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.25",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "1KI-4:26",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.26",
        "text": "And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "1KI-4:27",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.27",
        "text": "And those officers provided victuals for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon`s table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "1KI-4:28",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.28",
        "text": "Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they unto the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his charge."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "1KI-4:29",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.29",
        "text": "And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "1KI-4:30",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.30",
        "text": "And Solomon`s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "1KI-4:31",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.31",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "1KI-4:32",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.32",
        "text": "And he spake three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "1KI-4:33",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.33",
        "text": "And he spake of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spake also of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fishes."
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "1KI-4:34",
        "verseRef": "1Kgs.4.34",
        "text": "And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom."
      }
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