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¹ And King Solomon is king over all Israel,² and these [are] the heads whom he has: Azariah son of Zadok [is] the priest;³ Elihoreph and Ahiah sons of Shisha [are] scribes; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud [is] remembrancer;⁴ and Benaiah son of Jehoiada [is] over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar [are] priests;⁵ and Azariah son of Nathan [is] over the officers; and Zabud son of Nathan [is] minister, friend of the king;⁶ and Ahishar [is] over the household, and Adoniram son of Abda [is] over the tribute.⁷ And Solomon has twelve officers over all Israel, and they have sustained the king and his household—a month in the year is on each one for sustenance;⁸ and these [are] their names: Ben-Hur in the hill-country of Ephraim;⁹ Ben-Dekar in Makaz, and Shaalbim, and Beth-Shemesh, and Elon-Beth-Hanan;¹⁰ Ben-Hesed, in Aruboth, has Sochoh and all the land of Hepher;¹¹ Ben-Abinadab [has] all the elevation of Dor; Taphath daughter of Solomon became his wife;¹² Baana Ben-Ahilud [has] Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-Shean, which [is] by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-Shean to Abel-Meholah, to beyond Jokneam;¹³ Ben-Geber, in Ramoth-Gilead, has the small towns of Jair son of Manasseh, which [are] in Gilead; he has a portion of Argob that [is] in Bashan—sixty great cities [with] wall and bronze bar;¹⁴ Ahinadab son of Iddo [has] Mahanaim;¹⁵ Ahimaaz [is] in Naphtali; he also has taken Basemath daughter of Solomon for a wife;¹⁶ Baanah Ben-Hushai [is] in Asher, and in Aloth;¹⁷ Jehoshaphat Ben-Paruah [is] in Issachar;¹⁸ Shimei Ben-Elah [is] in Benjamin;¹⁹ Geber Ben-Uri [is] in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon king of the Amorite, and of Og king of Bashan: and [he is] the one officer who [is] in the land.

²⁰ Judah and Israel [are] many, as the sand that [is] by the sea for multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing.²¹ And Solomon has been ruling over all the kingdoms, from the River [to] the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt: they are bringing a present near, and serving Solomon, all [the] days of his life.²² And the provision of Solomon for one day is thirty cors of flour, and sixty cors of meal,²³ ten fat oxen, and twenty feeding oxen, and one hundred sheep, apart from deer, and roe, and fallow-deer, and fatted beasts of the stalls,²⁴ for he is ruling over all beyond the river, from Tiphsah and to Gaza, over all the kings beyond the River, and he has peace from all his surrounding servants.²⁵ And Judah dwells—and Israel—in confidence, each under his vine, and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-Sheba, all the days of Solomon.²⁶ And Solomon has forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.²⁷ And these officers have sustained King Solomon and everyone drawing near to the table of King Solomon, each [in] his month; they let nothing be lacking.²⁸ And the barley and the straw, for horses and for dromedaries, they bring to the place where they are, each according to his ordinance.

²⁹ And God gives very much wisdom and understanding to Solomon, and breadth of heart, as the sand that [is] on the edge of the sea;³⁰ and the wisdom of Solomon is greater than the wisdom of any of the sons of the east, and [greater] than all the wisdom of Egypt;³¹ and he is wiser than all men, [wiser] than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, sons of Mahol, and his name is in all the surrounding nations.³² And he speaks three thousand allegories, and his songs [are] one thousand and five;³³ and he speaks concerning the trees, from the cedar that [is] in Lebanon, even to the hyssop that is coming out in the wall, and he speaks concerning the livestock, and concerning the bird, and concerning the creeping things, and concerning the fishes,³⁴ and there come out [those] of all the peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth who have heard of his wisdom.