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Solomon's provision for one day was thirty cors of choice flour, and sixty cors of meal,
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ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, one hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl.
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For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphrates from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphrates; and he had peace on all sides.
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During Solomon's lifetime Judah and Israel lived in safety, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all of them under their vines and fig trees.
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Solomon also had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
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Those officials supplied provisions for King Solomon and for all who came to King Solomon's table, each one in his month; they let nothing be lacking.
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They also brought to the required place barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds, each according to his charge.
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God gave Solomon very great wisdom, discernment, and breadth of understanding as vast as the sand on the seashore,
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so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
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He was wiser than anyone else, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, children of Mahol; his fame spread throughout all the surrounding nations.
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He composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.