1 ¶ So king Solomon was king over all Israel.

2 And these were his chief officials; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,

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

4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army: 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, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for one month in the year.

8 And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:

9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, Shaalbim, 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, who was married to Taphath the daughter of Solomon, in all the region of Dor:

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 to the place that is beyond Jokneam:

13 The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, that are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars:

14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo in Mahanaim:

15 Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon as his 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 Og king of Bashan; and there was one overseer 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 Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, and to 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 sixty measures of meal,

23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, and an hundred sheep, beside deer, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.

24 For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphrates river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings west of 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 food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon’s table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.

28 They also brought barley and straw for the horses and dromedaries to the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.

29 ¶ And God gave Solomon exceptionally much wisdom and understanding, and breadth of mind, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.

30 And Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people in the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

31 For he was wiser than all other men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations around.

32 And he originated three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.

33 And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall: he also spoke of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.

34 And people came from all around to hear the wisdom of Solomon, sent by all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.