First kings 4:1-34 LSV

[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.