1 Kings 4

Now King Solomon was king over all of Israel.

And these {were} the officials who {were} to him. Azariah, the son of Zadok, was the priest.

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

And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the army. And Zadok and Abiathar were priests. \*

And Azariah, the son of Nathan, {was} over the deputies. And Zabud, the son of Nathan, {was} a priest, a friend of the king.

And Ahishar was over the house. And Adoniram, the son of Abda, was over the forced labor. \*

Now to Solomon {were} 12 deputies over all of Israel, and they sustained the king and his house. A month in the year was upon one to sustain.

And these {were} their names. Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim.

Ben Deker, in Makaz and in Shaalbim and Beth Shemesh and Elon Beth Hanan.

Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him {was} Sokoh and all of the land of Hepher). \*

Ben Abinadab, all of Naphoth Dor. (Taphath, the daughter of Solomon, was to him for a wife.)

Baana, the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo and all of Beth Shan that {is} beside Zarethan from below Jezreel, from Beth Shan to Abel Meholah, as far as from the other side of Jokmeam.

Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead. (To him {were} the villages of Jair, the son of Manasseh, that {were} in Gilead; to him {was} the region of Argob, which {was} in Bashan, 60 great cities {with} a wall and a bar of bronze).

Ahinadab, the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim. \*

Ahimaaz, in Naphtali. (He also took Basemath, the daughter of Solomon, for a wife.)

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

Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, in Issachar. \*

Shimei, the son of Ela, in Benjamin.

Geber, the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon, the king of the Amorite, and Og, the king of Bashan, and {there was} one deputy who {was} in the land. \*

Judah and Israel {were} numerous, like the sand that {is} at the sea for abundance, eating and drinking and rejoicing.

And Solomon was ruling over all of the kingdoms from the River {to} the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt, bringing tribute and serving Solomon all of the days of his life.

And the bread of Solomon for one day was 30 cors of fine flour and 60 cors of flour,

ten fat cattle and 20 pasture cattle and 100 sheep, apart from deer and gazelle and roebuck and fattened fowl. \*

For he ruled over everything beyond the River from Tiphsah and to Gaza, over all of the kings of beyond the River. And peace was to him from all of his sides, from all around.

And Judah and Israel dwelled in safety, a man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan and to Beersheba, all of the days of Solomon. \*

And 40,000 stalls of horses were to Solomon for his chariotry, and 12,000 horsemen.

And those deputies sustained King Solomon and all of the {ones} near to the table of King Solomon, a man his month. They did not let a thing lack.

And they brought the barley and the straw for the horses and for the steed to the place where it should be there, a man according to his ordinance. \*

And God gave wisdom to Solomon and very much understanding and breadth of heart like the sand that {is} on the shore of the sea.

And the wisdom of Solomon was greater than the wisdom of all of the sons of the east and than all of the wisdom of Egypt.

And he was wiser than every man, than Ethan the Ezrahite and Heman and Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his name was in all of the surrounding nations. \*

And he spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005.

And he spoke about trees, from the cedar that {is} in Lebanon and to the hyssop that comes out in the wall. And he spoke about the beast and about the bird and about the creeping thing and about the fish.

And they came from all of the peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from with all of the kings of the earth who had heard {about} his wisdom. \*