King James Version
1 Kings 4:1 in the King James Version says “So king Solomon was king over all Israel.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So king Solomon was king over all Israel.”
1 Kings 4:1 · King James Version
So king Solomon was king over all Israel.
And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest, priest: or, chief officer
Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder. scribes: or, secretaries recorder: or, remembrancer
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to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“over all Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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