Kings III 4
1 And king Solomon reigned over Israel.
`Forsothe kyng Salomon was regnynge on al Israel.
2 And these [are] the princes which he had; Azarias son of Sadoc.
And these weren the princes which he hadde; Azarie, sone of Sadoch, preest;
3 Eliaph, and Achia son of Seba, scribes; and Josaphat son of Achilud, recorder.
Helioreb, and Haia, sones of Sila, `weren scryueyns; Josophat, sone of Achilud, was chaunseler;
4 And Banaeas son of Jodae over the host; and Sadoc and Abiathar [were] priests.
Banaie, sone of Joiada, was on the oost; forsothe Sadoch and Abiathar weren preestis;
5 And Ornia the son of Nathan [was] over the officers; and Zabuth son of Nathan [was] the king's friend.
Azarie, sone of Nathan, was on hem that stoden niy the kyng; Zabul, the sone of Nathan, was preest, `that is, greet and worschipful, a freend of the kyng;
6 And Achisar was steward, and Eliac the [chief] steward; and Eliab the son of Saph [was] over the family: and Adoniram the son of Audon over the tribute.
and Ahiasar was stiward of the hows; and Adonyram, sone of Adda, was on the tributis.
7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, to provide for the king and his household; each one's turn came to supply for a month in the year.
Forsothe Salomon hadde twelue `prefectis, ether cheef minystrys, on al Israel, that yauen lijflode to the kyng, and to his hows; sotheli bi ech monethe bi it silf in the yeer, ech prefect bi hym silf mynystride necessaries.
8 And these [were] their names: Been the son of Or in the mount of Ephraim, one.
And these ben the names of hem; Benhur, in the hil of Effraym;
9 The son of Dacar, in Makes, and in Salabin, and Baethsamys, and Elon as far as Bethanan, one.
Bendechar, in Macces, and in Salebbym, and in Bethsames, and in Helon, and in Bethanan;
10 The son of Esdi in Araboth; his [was] Socho, and all the land of Opher.
Beneseth, in Araboth; forsothe Socco, and al the lond of Epher was his;
11 All Nephthador [belonged to] the son of Aminadab, Tephath daughter of Solomon was his wife, one.
Benabidanab, whos was al Neptad, hadde Dortaphaed, `Solomons douyter, to wijf.
12 Bana son of Achiluth [had] Ithaanach, and Mageddo, and [his was] the whole house of San which was by Sesathan below Esrae, and from Bethsan as far as Sabelmaula, as far as Maeber Lucam, one.
Bena, sone of Achilud, gouernyde Thaneth, and Mageddo, and al Bethsan, which is bisidis Sarthana, vndur Jezrael, fro Bethsan `til to Abelmeula, euene ayens Zelmaan.
13 The son of Naber in Raboth Galaad, to him [fell] the lot of Ergab in Basan, sixty great cities with walls, and brazen bars, one.
Bengaber in Ramoth of Galaad hadde Anothiair, of the sone of Manasses, in Galaad; he was souereyn in al the cuntrey of Argob, which is in Basan, to sixti greet citees and wallid, that hadden brasun lockis.
14 Achinadab son of Saddo, [had] Maanaim.
Achymadab, sone of Addo, was souereyn in Manaym;
15 Achimaas [was] in Nephthalim, and he took Basemmath daughter of Solomon to wife, one.
Achymaas was in Neptalym, but also he hadde Bachsemath, douyter of Salomon, in wedloc;
16 Baana son of Chusi, in Aser and in Baaloth, one,
Banaa, sone of Husy, was in Aser, and in Balod;
17 Josaphat son of Phuasud [was] in Issachar.
Josephat, sone of Pharue, was in Ysachar; Semey, sone of Hela, was in Beniamyn;
18 Semei son of Ela, in Benjamin.
Gaber,
19 Gaber son of Adai in the land of Gad, [the land] of Seon king of Esebon, and of Og king of Basan, and one officer in the land of Juda.
sone of Sury, was in the lond of Galaad, and in the lond of Seon, kyng of Amorrey, and of Og, kyng of Basan, on alle thingis, that weren in that lond.
20 And thus the officers provided king Solomon: and [they execute] every one in his month all the orders for the table of the king, they omit nothing.
Juda and Israel weren vnnoumbrable, as the soond of the see in multitude, etynge, and drynkynge, and beynge glad.
21 And they carried the barley and the straw for the horses and the chariots to the place where the king might be, each according to his charge.
Forsothe Solomon was in his lordschip, and hadde alle rewmes, as fro the flood of the lond of Filisteis `til to the laste part of Egipt, of men offrynge yiftis to hym, and seruynge to hym, in alle the daies of his lijf.
22 And these [were] the requisite supplies for Solomon: in one day thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of fine pounded meal,
Forsothe the mete of Salomon was bi ech day, thritti chorus of clene flour of whete, and sixti chorus of mele,
23 and ten choice calves, and twenty pastured oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides stags, and choice fatted does.
ten fatte oxis, and twenti oxis of lesewe, and an hundrid wetheris, outakun huntyng of hertys, of geet, and of buglis, and of briddis maad fat.
24 For he had dominion on this side the river, and he was at peace on all sides round about.
For he helde al the cuntrei that was biyende the flood, as fro Caphsa `til to Gasa, and alle the kyngis of tho cuntreis; and he hadde pees bi ech part in cumpas.
And Juda and Israel dwelliden withouten ony drede, ech man vndur his vyne, and vndur his fige tree, fro Dan `til to Bersabe, in alle the daies of Salomon.
And Salomon hadde fourty thousynd cratchis of horsis for charis, and twelue thousynde of roode horsis; and the forseid prefectis nurshiden tho horsis.
But also with greet bisynesse thei yauen necessaries to the boord of kyng Salomon in her tyme;
also thei brouyten barli, and forage of horsis and werk beestis, in to the place where the king was, `bi ordenaunce to hem.
29 And the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and very much wisdom, and enlargement of heart, as the sand on the seashore.
Also God yaf to Salomon wisdom, and prudence ful myche, and largenesse of herte, as the soond which is in the brenke of the see.
30 And Solomon abounded greatly beyond the wisdom of all the ancients, and beyond all the wise men of Egypt.
And the wisdom of Solomon passide the wisdom of alle eest men, and Egipcians;
31 And he was wiser than all [other] men: and he was wiser than Gaethan the Zarite, and [than] Aenan, and [than] Chalcad and Darala the son of Mal.
and he was wisere than alle men; he was wisere than Ethan Esraite, and than Eman, and than Cacal, and than Dorda, the sones of Maol; and he was named among alle folkis bi cumpas.
32 And Solomon spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were five thousand.
And Salomon spak thre thousynde parablis, and hise songis weren fyue thousynde;
33 And he spoke of trees, from the cedar in Libanus even to the hyssop which comes out through the wall: he spoke also of cattle, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fishes.
and he disputide of trees fro a cedre which is in the Lyban, `til to the ysope that goith out of the wal; he disputide of werk beestis, and briddis, and crepynge beestis, and fischis.
34 And all the nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and [ambassadors] from all the kings of the earth, as many as heard of his wisdom.
And thei camen fro alle puplis to here the wisdom of Salomon, and fro alle kyngis of erthe, that herden his wisdom.
