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1 So king Solomon was king over all Is­rael. 2 And these were the princes which he had; Azari­ah the son of Zadok the priest, 3 Eli­horeph and Ahi­ah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Je­hoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder. 4 And Be­na­iah the son of Je­hoia­da was over the host: and Zadok and Abi­athar were the priests: 5 And Azari­ah the son of Nathan was over the of­fi­cers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was prin­ci­pal of­fi­cer, and the king's friend: 6 And Ahishar was over the house­hold: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the trib­ute. 7 And Solomon had twelve of­fi­cers over all Is­rael, which pro­vid­ed vict­uals for the king and his house­hold: each man his month in a year made pro­vi­sion. 8 And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: 9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaal­bim, and Bethshemesh, and Elon­beth­hanan: 10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained So­choh, and all the land of Hep­her: 11 The son of Abi­nadab, in all the re­gion of Dor; which had Taphath the daugh­ter of Solomon to wife: 12 Baana the son of Ahilud; ­to him pertained Taanach and Megid­do, and all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah be­neath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelme­ho­lah, even unto the place that is be­yond Jokneam: 13 The son of Geber, in Ramoth­gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Man­asseh, which are in Gilead; to him al­so pertained the re­gion of Ar­gob, which is in Bashan, three­score great cities with walls and brasen bars: 14 Ahi­nadab the son of Iddo had Ma­hanaim: 15 Ahi­maaz was in Naph­tali; he also took Bas­math the daugh­ter of Solomon to wife: 16 Baanah the son of Hushai was in Ash­er and in Aloth: 17 Je­hoshaphat the son of Paru­ah, in Is­sachar: 18 Shimei the son of Elah, in Ben­jamin: 19 Geber the son of Uri was in the coun­try of Gilead, in the coun­try of Si­hon king of the Amor­ites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only of­fi­cer which was in the land. 20 Ju­dah and Is­rael were many, as the sand which is by the sea in mul­ti­tude, eat­ing and drink­ing, and mak­ing mer­ry. 21 And Solomon reigned over all king­doms from the riv­er unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the bor­der of Egypt: they brought pre­sents, and served Solomon all the days of his life. 22 And Solomon's pro­vi­sion for one day was thir­ty mea­sures of fine flour, and three­score mea­sures of meal, 23 Ten fat ox­en, and twen­ty oxen out of the pas­tures, and an hun­dred sheep, be­side harts, and roe­bucks, and fal­lowdeer, and fat­ted fowl. 24 For he had do­min­ion over all the region on this side the riv­er, from Tiph­sah even to Az­zah, over all the kings on this side the riv­er: and he had peace on all sides round about him. 25 And Ju­dah and Is­rael dwelt safe­ly, ev­ery man un­der his vine and un­der his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer­she­ba, all the days of Solomon. 26 And Solomon had forty thou­sand stalls of hors­es for his char­i­ots, and twelve thou­sand horse­men. 27 And those of­fi­cers pro­vid­ed vict­ual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, ev­ery man in his month: they lacked noth­ing. 28 Bar­ley also and straw for the hors­es and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, ev­ery man ac­cord­ing to his charge. 29 And God gave Solomon wis­dom and un­der­stand­ing ex­ceed­ing much, and large­ness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. 30 And Solomon's wis­dom ex­celled the wis­dom of all the chil­dren of the east coun­try, and all the wis­dom of Egypt. 31 For he was wis­er than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and He­man, and Chal­col, and Dar­da, the sons of Ma­hol: and his fame was in all na­tions round about. 32 And he spake three thou­sand proverbs: and his songs were a thou­sand and five. 33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hys­sop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creep­ing things, and of fish­es. 34 And there came of all peo­ple to hear the wis­dom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wis­dom.