¹King Solomon was king over all Israel.

²And these were the officials who belonged to him: Azariah son of Zadok the priest;

³Elihoreph and Ahijah, sons of Shisha, were scribes; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

⁴and Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

⁵and Azariah son of Nathan was over those stationed; and Zabud son of Nathan, a priest, was the friend of the king;

⁶and Ahishar was over the house; and Adoniram son of Abda was over the forced labor.

⁷And Solomon had twelve stationed over all Israel, and they provided for the king and his household; a month in the year would fall on each one to provide.

⁸And these are their names: Ben-hur in the hill country of Ephraim;

⁹Ben-deker in Makaz, in Shaalbim, in Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;

¹⁰Ben-hesed in Arubboth; to him belonged Socoh and all the land of Hepher;

¹¹Ben-abinadab had all the height of Dor; Taphath daughter of Solomon became his wife;

¹²Baana son of Ahilud had Taanach and Megiddo and all of Beth-shean, which is beside Zarethan, below Jezreel, from Beth-shean as far as Abel-meholah, as far as the other side of Jokmeam;

¹³Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead; to him belonged the villages of Jair son of Manasseh that are in Gilead; to him belonged the region of Argob that is in Bashan, sixty great cities with a wall and bronze bars.

¹⁴Ahinadab son of Iddo in Mahanaim;

¹⁵Ahimaaz in Naphtali; he also took Basemath daughter of Solomon as a wife;

¹⁶Baana son of Hushai in Asher and Bealoth;

¹⁷Jehoshaphat son of Paruah in Issachar;

¹⁸Shimei son of Ela in Benjamin;

¹⁹Geber son of Uri in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and there was one prefect who was in the land.

²⁰Judah and Israel were numerous, like the sand that is by the sea in multitude; they ate and drank and were joyful.

²¹And Solomon was ruling over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines and as far as the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

²²And the food of Solomon for one day was thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of meal.

²³ten fattened cattle, twenty pasture cattle, and a hundred sheep and goats, apart from deer and gazelle and roebuck and fattened fowl.

²⁴For he was ruling over all the region across the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings of the region across the River; and wholeness belonged to him on all his sides, all around.

²⁵And Judah and Israel dwelled in security, each man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

²⁶And Solomon had forty thousand mangers of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

²⁷And these stationed ones provided for King Solomon and for everyone who came near to the table of King Solomon; each in his month; they let no word be lacking.

²⁸And the barley and the straw for the horses and for the steeds they brought to the place where it would be, there, each one as was prescribed for him.

²⁹And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding, multiplied exceedingly, and breadth of heart, like the sand that is on the edge of the sea.

³⁰And the wisdom of Solomon was greater than the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and than all the wisdom of Egypt.

³¹And he was wiser than any man, than Ethan the Ezrachite and Heman and Kalkol and Darda, the children of Mahol; and his name was among all the nations round about.

³²And he spoke three thousand proverbs, and his song was a thousand and five.

³³And he spoke about the trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that comes out of the wall; and he spoke about the livestock, and about the birds, and about the creeping things, and about the fish.

³⁴And they came from all the peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon; from all the kings of the land who had heard of his wisdom.