1 Kings 4:21-24

Solomon's Wealth and Wisdom

21 1 s Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the t Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. u They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

22 Solomon's provision for one day was thirty cors 2 of fine flour and sixty cors of meal, 23 ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl. 24 For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphrates from Tiphsah to v Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphrates. w And he had peace on all sides around him.

  1. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 9:26
    And he ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt.
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 15:18
    On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.
    Exodus 23:31
    And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
    Joshua 1:4
    From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.
    Psalms 72:8
    May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth!
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 68:29
    Because of your temple at Jerusalem kings shall bear gifts to you.
    Psalms 72:10 - 11
    May the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands render him tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts!
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 10:19
    And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
  5. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 22:9
    Behold, a son shall be born to you who shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his surrounding enemies. For his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days.
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