---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: 1 Kings from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 4
verse_count: 34
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), 1 Kings, chap. 4, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# 1 Kings 4

**1** So king Solomon was king over all Israel.
**2** And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,
**3** Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.
**4** And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests;
**5** And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer; and the king's friend;
**6** And Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.
**7** And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household; each man his month in a year made provision.
**8** And these are their names; The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim;
**9** The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;
**10** The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher;
**11** The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife;
**12** Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam;
**13** The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, three-score great cities with walls and brazen bars;
**14** Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim;
**15** Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife;
**16** Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth;
**17** Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
**18** Shimei the son of Elah, in 'Benjamin;
**19** Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land.
**20** Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
**21** And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt; they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
**22** And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and three-score measures of meal,
**23** Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and roebucks, and fallow deer, and fatted fowl.
**24** For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river; and he had peace on all sides round about him.
**25** 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.
**26** And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
**27** And those officers provided victuals for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they lacked nothing.
**28** Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.
**29** And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.
**30** And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
**31** For he was wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all nations round about.
**32** And he spake three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.
**33** And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
**34** And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.