[1] King Solomon was king over all Israel.
[2] 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 army; 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 minister, the king’s friend;
[6] and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.
[7] Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.
[8] 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 belonged 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 belonged the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him belonged the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty 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 who 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] 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] Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,
[23] ten head of fat cattle, and twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides deer, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.
[24] For he had dominion over all 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 around him.
[25] Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
[26] Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
[27] Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who 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 brought they to the place where the officers were, every man according to his duty.
[29] God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.
[30] Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
[31] For 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 all around.
[32] He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five.
[33] 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 animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.
[34] There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.