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¹ So Solomon was king over all Israel.² And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok the priest;³ Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.⁴ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;⁵ And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the governors; and Zabur, the son of Nathan, the priest, was the kings friend;⁶ And Abinshar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.⁷ And Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household and for the army; each month of the year it fell on one of them to supply provisions.⁸ And these are their names: the son of Hur, who ruled in mount Ephraim;⁹ The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;¹⁰ The son of Hesed, in Raboth to him belonged Socoth, and all the land of Hepher;¹¹ The son of Abinadab, in Naphatdor, who had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife;¹² Baana the son of Ahilud, who ruled in Taanach and Megiddo, and in all Beth-shean, which is beside Zartan, below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the other side of Nekemaam;¹³ The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him belonged the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh; to him also belonged the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with wails and bronze bars;¹⁴ Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;¹⁵ Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife;¹⁶ Baana the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth;¹⁷ Jehoshaphat the son of Paroh, in Issachar;¹⁸ Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin;¹⁹ Geber the son of Uri was in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and the governors ruled in the land.

²⁰ Judah and Israel were as many in multitude as the sand which is by the sea; they ate and drank and made merry.²¹ And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the river which is in the land of the Philistines as far as the border of Egypt; and his subjects brought presents and served Solomon all the days of his life.²² And Solomons provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour and sixty measures of meal,²³ Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen out of the pastures and a hundred sheep, besides harts and gazelles and roe, bucks and fatted fowls.²⁴ For he had dominion over all the region on this side of the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side of the river; and he had peace on all sides round about him.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.²⁶ And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots and twelve thousand horsemen.²⁷ And those governors supplied provisions for King Solomon and for all who came to King Solomons table, every man in his month; they lacked nothing.²⁸ Barley also and straw for the horses and the dromedaries they brought to the place where the officers were, every man as it was his due.

²⁹ And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart,³⁰ So that Solomons wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of the Egyptians.³¹ For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Easterner, and Heman, and Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations round about.³² And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.³³ And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even to the, hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts and of fowl and of creeping things and of fishes.³⁴ And there came men from all nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth; and he received presents from all kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.