1 Kings 4

¹And King Solomon was king over all Israel.

²And these were the officials who were his: Azariah son of Zadok the priest;

³Elihoreph and Ahijah, sons of Shisha, were scribes; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder.

⁴And Benaiah son of Jehoiada over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar, priests;

⁵And Azariah son of Nathan was over the district officers; and Zabud son of Nathan was priest, close associate of the king.

⁶and Ahishar over the household; and Adoniram son of Abda over the forced labor.

⁷And Solomon had twelve district officers over all Israel; they supplied the king and his household, each one being responsible for one month in the year to make provision.

⁸And these were their names: Ben-hur in the hill country of Ephraim;

⁹Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elon-beth-hanan;

¹⁰Ben-hesed in Arubboth; his were Socoh and all the land of Hepher;

¹¹Ben-Abinadab, in all the heights of Dor; Taphath, Solomon's daughter, was his wife.

¹²Baana son of Ahilud: Taanach and Megiddo and all Beth-shean, which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam.

¹³Ben-Geber, in Ramoth-gilead — to him the villages of Jair son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with wall and bronze bar.

¹⁴Ahinadab son of Iddo, in Mahanaim.

¹⁵Ahimaaz in Naphtali; he also took Basemath daughter of Solomon as wife.

¹⁶Baana son of Hushai, in Asher and in Bealoth.

¹⁷Jehoshaphat son of Paruah in Issachar.

¹⁸Shimei son of Ela, in Benjamin.

¹⁹Geber son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and one officer who was in the land.

²⁰Judah and Israel were as many as the sand that is by the sea in abundance, eating and drinking and rejoicing.

²¹And Solomon was ruling over all the kingdoms from the River, the land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt — bringing tribute and serving Solomon all the days of his life.

²²And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of flour.

²³ten fat oxen and twenty pasture-fed cattle and a hundred sheep, besides deer and gazelles and roebucks and fatted fowl.

²⁴For he was ruling over all the region beyond the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings of the region beyond the River; and peace was his on all his sides all around.

²⁵And Judah and Israel lived in safety, each man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

²⁶And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariotry, and twelve thousand horsemen.

²⁷And these stationed ones provided for King Solomon and for all who drew near to King Solomon's table, each his month; they did not let a thing be lacking.

²⁸The barley and the straw for the horses and the steeds they would bring to the place where each man would be, according to his requirement.

²⁹And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding in great abundance, and breadth of heart like the sand that is on the seashore.

³⁰And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.

³¹And he was wiser than all men — than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol — and his fame was in all the nations round about.

³²And he spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five.

³³And he spoke about trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon down to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; and he spoke about animals and about flying things and about creeping things and about fish.

³⁴And they came from all the peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.