rfbible logo image

Revised Fenton

The Holy Bible in Modern English. Revised Edition.
God's word is swift and powerful.



Must be logged in to use the editor.
Logging in enables and unlocks menu option for Pasting
verses, allows taking notes, saving or emailing
notes to an email address.
Easily dictate into the editor with windows 10
using a microphone and correct permission set in web browser.
Windows logo key + H activates the microphone.

Must be logged in to join the chat room here.

Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

Blog entry:Today


   


   

   

RF KI1 4:1 (B.C. 1014.) Solomon Appoints his Ministers.
Thus Solomon became king over all Israel.
RF KI1 4:2 And these were his Princes: Azariah-ben-Zadok, the Priest;
RF KI1 4:3 Alikheraf, and Akhiah, sons of Shisha, were Chancellors; Jhoshafat-ben-Akhiud, was the Recorder;
RF KI1 4:4 and Beniah-ben-Jhoiadah was over the army; And Zadok and Abiathar were Priests.
RF KI1 4:5 And Azariah-ben-Nathan was Superintendent of the Governors; And Zebud-ben-Nathan Superintendent of the Royal Farms;
RF KI1 4:6 And Akhishur was Superintendent of the Palace; And Adoniram-ben-Abda, Superintendent of the Taxes.
RF KI1 4:7 (B.C. 1014) Provincial Governors Appointed.
Solomon also had twelve governors over all Israel, who also sustained the king and his family, each a month in a year, they were to equalize the expenses,
RF KI1 4:8 And these were their names.
RF KI1 4:9 Ben Khor, in Mount Ephraim; Ben Dakar, in Makaz, and Shalbim, and Bethshemsh,
RF KI1 4:10 and the oak wood of Beth-khanan; Ben Khesed in Arboth, with Sokah,
RF KI1 4:11 and all the district of Khafir; Ben-Abiriadab over all Nafath-dor. (Tafath the daughter of Solomon was his wife.)
RF KI1 4:12 To Ana-ben-Akhiltid were Thanak, and Megiddo, and all Bethshon to Abel-Makholah, as far as the ford of Jekemam.
RF KI1 4:13 Ben-Gabar was at Ramoth-Gilad. He had the villages of Ben-Manasseh, that are in Gilad, with the district of Argob, that lies in Bashan. Sixty great walled cities, with walls and brass gates.
RF KI1 4:14 Akhinadab-ben-Ada was at Mak-hanim;
RF KI1 4:15 Akhimatz in Naphtali. (He also married as his wife Basmath, the daughter of Solomon.)
RF KI1 4:16 Bana-ben-Khoshai, in Asher, and Baloth;
RF KI1 4:17 Jhoshafat-ben-Parauh, in Issakar;
RF KI1 4:18 Shimai-ben-Ala, in Benjamin;
RF KI1 4:19 Gabar-ben-Ari, in the land of no Gilad, the district of Sihon, King of the Amori, and Og, King of Bashan, which district was a single government.
RF KI1 4:20 And Judah and Israel increased like the sand which is by the sea, with plenty to eat and drink, and enjoy.
RF KI1 4:21 (B.C. 1014.) Extent of Solomon's Empire.
Solomon was also Emperor of all the Kingdoms from the River,1 to the country of the Philishtim and to the border of the Mitzeraim2, and they lay under tribute and service to Solomon all the time of his life.
—————
1. By "The River" is always meant the Euphrates, which flows from the Caucasus mountains in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south of Central Asia.—F.F.
2. Egypt.—F.F.
RF KI1 4:22 And the provision for Solomon for a single day was thirty kors of fine flour and sixty kors of meal,
RF KI1 4:23 ten fat bullocks, and twenty grazed bullocks, and a hundred sheep, beside goats,
RF KI1 4:24 And venison, and fat poultry. For he also ruled over all beyond the River, from Thifsah to Azah, in all the kingdoms beyond the River2, and he kept peace for all his subjects around.
RF KI1 4:25 And Judah and Israel lived in security, every one under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan to Bersheba, all the period of Solomon.
RF KI1 4:26 Solomon also had stalls for forty thousand horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand cavalry,
RF KI1 4:27 and the Governors provided these for King Solomon. Besides which they provided King Solomon's table each in his month. Nothing was omitted.
RF KI1 4:28 They brought barley and straw for the horses and hunters to the places where they were, every one as instructed.
RF KI1 4:29 Solomon as a Scientist.
And GOD gave to Solomon very great wisdom and understanding, and wide intelligence, like the sand on the sea shore.
RF KI1 4:30 For Solomon's scientific knowledge was more extensive than the science of all the Beni-Kedem3, and than all the science of the Mitzeraim4,
RF KI1 4:31 He knew more than all men of the orbits of the planets, of the origination of light, and fixed sustaining systems, and the results of the revolving spheres5, and his fame was spread among all the nations around.
—————
2 "The Kingdoms beyond the River," that is, the districts now called Persia and Belu-chistan to the River Indus.—F.F.
3 Sons of the East: Chaldean.—F.F.
4 Egyptians.—F.F.
5 I believe the above to be the real purport of this passage which the Mediaeval translators not understanding, as it contains the technical terminology of cosmical sciences of which they had lost all knowledge, transformed it into proper names. I am also satisfied the same blunder has been made in similar cases in many other passages of Scripture. I have, therefore, rejected the old versions entirely, and give the real purport of the Hebrew text, as arrived at by philological analysis. Solomon, in fact, understood what we now call the Copernican and Newtonian principles of Astronomy, and Cosmogony.—F.F.
RF KI1 4:32 He also wrote three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five.
RF KI1 4:33 And he wrote about botany as well, from the Cedar upon Lebanon, to the mosses that grow upon walls; and studied the zoology of beasts, and birds, and reptiles, and fish.
RF KI1 4:34 So that persons came from all the nations to listen to the sciences of Solomon, from all the kingdoms of the earth who heard of his scientific knowledge.




text



AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



Copyright © 2014 This content is protected by copyright and may not be converted or disseminated in any form without written permission.