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¹ And king 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 Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;⁴ and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;⁵ and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief ruler, [and] the king's friend;⁶ and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to slave labor.⁷ And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.⁸ And these are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;⁹ Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;¹⁰ Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him [pertained] Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);¹¹ Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife);¹² Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;¹³ Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (to him [pertained] the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; [even] to him [pertained] the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and bronze bars);¹⁴ Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;¹⁵ Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);¹⁶ Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;¹⁷ Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;¹⁸ Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;¹⁹ Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and [he was] the only officer that was in the land.

²⁰ Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.²¹ And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life.²² And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, and threescore cors of meal,²³ ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl.²⁴ For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side 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 officers provided victuals for king Solomon, and for all that came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.²⁸ Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds they brought to the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his charge.

²⁹ And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.³⁰ And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.³¹ For he was wiser than all of man; than Ethan the Ezrahite, 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 that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.³⁴ And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.