< 1 Kings 4 >
1 And he was the king Solomon king over all Israel.
2 And these [were] the officials who [belonged] to him Azariah [the] son of Zadok [was] the priest.
3 Elihoreph and Ahijah [the] sons of Shisha [were] scribes Jehoshaphat [the] son of Ahilud [was] 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 overseers and Zabud [the] son of Nathan [was] a priest [the] friend of the king.
6 And Ahishar [was] over the house and Adoniram [the] son of Abda [was] over the forced labor.
7 And [belonged] to Solomon two [plus] ten overseers over all Israel and they supplied the king and household his a month in the year it was on (the one *Q(K)*) to supply.
8 And these [are] names their Ben-Hur in [the] hill country of Ephraim.
9 Ben-Deker in Makaz and in Shaalbim and in Beth Shemesh and Elon Beth Hanan.
10 Ben-Hesed in Arubboth [belonged] to him Socoh and all [the] land of Hepher.
11 Ben-Abinadab all Naphath of Dor Taphath [the] daughter of Solomon she became of him a wife.
12 Baana [the] son of Ahilud Taanach and Megiddo and all Beth Shean which [is] beside Zarethan from under to Jezreel from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah to from [the] other side of Jokmeam.
13 Ben-Geber in Ramoth Gilead [belonged] to him [the] villages of Jair [the] son of Manasseh which [are] in Gilead [belonged] to him [the] region of Argob which [is] in Bashan sixty cities large a wall and bar[s] of bronze.
14 Ahinadab [the] son of Iddo Mahanaim.
15 Ahimaaz in Naphtali also he he took Basemath [the] daughter of Solomon to a 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] land of Sihon - [the] king of the Amorite[s] and Og [the] king of Bashan and an overseer one who [was] in the land.
20 Judah and Israel [were] numerous like the sand which [is] at the sea for multitude [they were] eating and [were] drinking and [were] joyful.
21 And Solomon he was ruling over all the kingdoms from the River [the] land of [the] Philistines and to [the] border of Egypt [they were] bringing tribute and [were] serving Solomon all [the] days of life his.
22 And it was [the] food of Solomon for a day one thirty cor[s] of fine flour and sixty cor[s] of flour.
23 Ten cattle fat and twenty cattle pasture and one hundred sheep apart from deer and gazelle and roe-deer and birds fattened.
24 For he [was] ruling - over all [the] other side of the River from Tiphsah and to Gaza over all [the] kings of [the] other side of the River and peace it belonged to him from all sides his from round about.
25 And it dwelt Judah and Israel to security everyone under own vine his and under own fig tree his from Dan and to Beer Sheba all [the] days of Solomon.
26 And it belonged to Solomon forty thousand stalls of horses for chariotry his and two [plus] ten thousand horsemen.
27 And they supplied the overseers these the king Solomon and every [person] approaching to [the] table of the king Solomon each month his not they left lacking anything.
28 And the barley and the straw for the horses and for the steed[s] they brought to the place where it was there each according to measure his.
29 And he gave God wisdom to Solomon and understanding great very and breadth of heart like the sand which [is] on [the] shore of the sea.
30 And it was great [the] wisdom of Solomon more than [the] wisdom of all [the] people of [the] east and more than all [the] wisdom of Egypt.
31 And he was wise more than any human more than Ethan the Ezrachite and Heman and Kalkol and Darda [the] sons of Mahol and it was name his among all the nations around.
32 And he spoke three thousand proverb[s] and it was song his five and one thousand.
33 And he spoke on the trees from the cedar which [is] in Lebanon and to the hyssop which [is] coming out in the wall and he spoke on the animal[s] and on the bird[s] and on the creeping thing[s] and on the fish.
34 And people came from all the peoples to hear [the] wisdom of Solomon from with all [the] kings of the earth who they had heard wisdom his.