1 King Solomon was king over the whole of Israel.
2 His officials were these: Azariah son of Zadok, the priest;
3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud, recorder;
4 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
5 Azariah son of Nathan, over the district officers; Zabud son of Nathan, priest and friend of the king;
6 Ahishar, over the palace; and Adoniram son of Abda, over the forced labor.
7 Solomon had twelve district officers over all Israel who supplied the king and his household; each was responsible for supplies one month of the year.
8 Their names were these: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
9 Ben-deker, in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh and Elon-beth-hanan;
10 Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him belonged Socoh and all the land of Hepher);
11 Ben-abinadab, all the heights of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);
12 Baana son of Ahilud, Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the other side of Jokmeam;
13 Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (he had the towns of Jair son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
14 Ahinadab son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also had taken Basemath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);
16 Baana son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
17 Jehoshaphat son of Paruah, in Issachar;
18 Shimei son of Ela, in Benjamin;
19 Geber son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and one officer was in the land.
20 Judah and Israel were as many as the sand beside the sea; they ate, they drank, and they were glad.
21 Solomon was ruler 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 were subject to Solomon every day of his life.
22 Solomon's food for a single day came to thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
23 ten fattened oxen, twenty oxen from the pasture and a hundred sheep, not counting deer, gazelles, roebucks and fatted birds.
24 For he held sway over all the land beyond the River, from Tiphsah as far as Gaza, over all the kings beyond the River, and he had peace on every side all around.
25 All the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely, each man beneath his own vine and fig tree, from Dan as far as Beersheba.
26 Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots and twelve thousand horsemen.
27 Those district officers supplied King Solomon and everyone who came to King Solomon's table, each in his month, and they let nothing run short.
28 The barley and the straw for the horses and swift steeds they also brought to wherever it was needed, each as he was assigned.
29 God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding in great abundance, and a breadth of heart as vast as the sand on the shore of the sea.
30 Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
31 He was wiser than any man, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and than Heman, Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his name became known in all the surrounding nations.
32 He uttered three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.
33 He spoke about trees, from the cedar in Lebanon down to the hyssop that springs from the wall. He spoke too about animals, birds, creeping things and fish.
34 From all the peoples men came to listen to Solomon's wisdom, sent by all the kings of the earth who had heard about his wisdom.