王上4:1 所罗门王作了全以色列的王。
王上4:1 Now Solomon was king over all Israel.
王上4:2 以下这些人是他的官员：撒督的儿子亚撒利雅作祭司；
王上4:2 And these were his chief men: Azariah, the son of Zadok, was the priest;
王上4:3 示沙的两个儿子以利何烈和亚希亚作书记；亚希律的儿子约沙法作史官；
王上4:3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were scribes; Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the recorder;
王上4:4 耶何耶大的儿子比拿雅统领军队；撒督和亚比亚他作祭司；
王上4:4 Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was head of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
王上4:5 拿单的儿子亚撒利雅作幕僚长；拿单的儿子撒布得作祭司，他也是王的朋友；
王上4:5 Azariah, the son of Nathan, was over those in authority in the different divisions of the country; Zabud, the son of Nathan, was priest and the king's friend;
王上4:6 亚希煞作家宰；亚比大的儿子亚多尼兰掌管服劳役的人。
王上4:6 Ahishar was controller of the king's house; Adoniram, the son of Abda, was overseer of the forced work.
王上4:7 十二个地方官员所罗门在全以色列立了十二个官员；他们为王和王家供应食物，每人每年供应一个月。
王上4:7 And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house; every man was responsible for one month in the year.
王上4:8 以下是他们的名字：便．户珥在以法莲山地；
王上4:8 And these are their names: ... the son of Hur in the hill country of Ephraim;
王上4:9 便．底甲在玛迦斯、沙宾、伯．示麦、以伦和伯．哈南；
王上4:9 ... the son of Deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;
王上4:10 便．希悉在亚鲁泊，梭哥和希弗全地是属他管理的；
王上4:10 ... the son of Hesed in Arubboth; Socoh and all the land of Hepher were under his control;
王上4:11 便．亚比拿达在拿法多珥全境，他娶了所罗门的女儿他法为妻；
王上4:11 ... the son of Abinadab in all Naphath-dor; his wife was Taphath, the daughter of Solomon.
王上4:12 亚希律的儿子巴拿在他纳、米吉多和伯．善全地，由伯．善到埃布尔．米何拉，再到约克米暗之外；
王上4:12 Baana, the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is by the side of Zarethan, under Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the far side of Jokmeam;
王上4:13 便．基列在基列的拉末；玛拿西的子孙睚珥在基列的村落是属他的，巴珊的亚珥歌伯地的六十座有城墙和铜闩的大城也是属他的。
王上4:13 ... the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead; he had the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and the country of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great towns with walls and locks of brass.
王上4:14 易多的儿子亚希拿达在玛哈念；
王上4:14 Ahinadab, the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
王上4:15 亚希玛斯在拿弗他利，他娶了所罗门的女儿巴实抹为妻；
王上4:15 Ahimaaz in Naphtali; he took Basemath, the daughter of Solomon, as his wife;
王上4:16 户筛的儿子巴拿在亚设和亚录；
王上4:16 Baana, the son of Hushai, in Asher and Aloth;
王上4:17 帕路亚的儿子约沙法在以萨迦；
王上4:17 Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
王上4:18 以拉的儿子示每在便雅悯；
王上4:18 Shimei, the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
王上4:19 乌利的儿子基别在基列地，就是从前亚摩利王西宏和巴珊王噩之地。这地只有一个官员管理。
王上4:19 Geber, the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan; and one overseer had authority over all the overseers who were in the land.
王上4:20 犹大人和以色列人很多，像海边的萨那样多；他们都吃喝、快乐。
王上4:20 Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts.
王上4:21 所罗门统治列国，从大河到非利士地，直到埃及的边界。这些国家，在所罗门在世的日子，都向他进贡，服事他。
王上4:21 And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life.
王上4:22 所罗门每天的食物是细面粉五千公升、粗面粉一万公升、
王上4:22 And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;
王上4:23 肥牛十头、草场的牛二十头、羊一百只，此外还有鹿、羚羊、麃子和肥禽。
王上4:23 Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.
王上4:24 因为所罗门统治大河西边，从提弗萨直到迦萨的全境和大河西边的列王，所以他的四境都平安无事。
王上4:24 For he had authority over all the country on this side of the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings on this side of the River; and he had peace round him on every side.
王上4:25 所罗门在世的日子，犹大和以色列人从但到别是巴，都各在自己的葡萄树下和无花果树下安然居住。
王上4:25 So Judah and Israel were living safely, every man under his vine and his fig-tree, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
王上4:26 所罗门有套车的马四万匹和骑兵一万二千人。
王上4:26 And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen.
王上4:27 那些官员分别每月供应所罗门王和所有与所罗门王一同坐席的人的食物，从没有缺少。
王上4:27 And those overseers, every man in his month, saw that food was produced for Solomon and all his guests, they took care that nothing was overlooked.
王上4:28 他们也各按各的职分供给拉车的马和快马吃的大麦和干草，送到指定的地方。
王上4:28 And they took grain and dry grass for the horses and the carriage-horses, to the right place, every man as he was ordered.
王上4:29 神赐给所罗门智慧、极大的聪明和广大的心，好像海边的萨那样无限无量。
王上4:29 And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside.
王上4:30 所罗门的智慧大过所有东方人的智慧，大过埃及人的一切智慧。
王上4:30 And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.
王上4:31 他比万人都有智慧，胜过以斯拉人以探和玛曷的三个儿子希幔、甲各、达大的智慧。他的名声传遍了四周列国。
王上4:31 For he was wiser than all men, even than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman and Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and he had a great name among all the nations round about.
王上4:32 他说了箴言三千句，他的诗歌有一千零五首；
王上4:32 He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.
王上4:33 他讲论草木，从黎巴嫩的香柏木到生长在墙上的牛膝草；他也讲论走兽、飞禽、爬虫和鱼类。
王上4:33 He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth.
王上4:34 万族之中和地上列王之中，听闻所罗门的智慧的，都有人来听所罗门的智慧。（本章第21~34节在《马索拉抄本》为5:1~14）
王上4:34 People came from every nation to give ear to the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had word of his wisdom.