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1 Kings 4:24 Explained in Context
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Verse 24. 24For 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.
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Role in This Section
At 1 Kings 4:24, the narrator connects Solomon's regional dominion with surrounding peace.
Read It With
- 1 Kings 4:22–4:28
Read 1 Kings 4:24 with 1 Kings 4:22–4:28, titled “Royal provision, peace, and cavalry.” Connects Solomon's regional dominion with surrounding peace.
Why It Needs Context
1 Kings 4:24 connects Solomon's regional dominion with surrounding peace; its significance depends on the whole movement of 1 Kings 4:22–4:28 and should not be taught as an independent conclusion.
Read 1 Kings 4:22–28 together
Why these verses belong together: Royal provision, peace, and cavalry is the complete reviewed scene, prayer, oracle, list, or regnal notice bounded at 4:22–4:28.
Verse 22. 22 And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
Verse 23. 23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
Verse 24. 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.
Verse 25. 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.
Verse 26. 26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
Verse 27. 27 And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon’s table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.
Verse 28. 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.
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Biblical text
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Exact location: 1 Kings 4:22–4:28, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Kings
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