¹So King Solomon was king over all Israel. ²And these are the ministers whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok the priest; ³Elihoreph and Ahiah the sons of Shisha, who were scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud the secretary of state, ⁴and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, who was over the army, and Zadok and Abiathar who were priests, ⁵and Azariah the son of Nathan who was in charge of the officials, and Zabud the son of Nathan who was priest and friend to the king, ⁶and Ahishar who was in charge of the household, and Adoniram the son of Abda who was in charge of taxation. ⁷And Solomon had twelve officials over all Israel, who sustained the king and his household. Each had to sustain him for one month per year. ⁸And these are their names: Ben-Hur in Mount Ephraim, ⁹Ben-Deker in Makaz and in Shaalbim and Beth-Shemesh and Elon-Beth-Hanan, ¹⁰Ben-Hesed in Arubboth, who had Sochoh and all the land of Hepher, ¹¹Ben-Abinadab in all the heights of Dor, whose wife was Taphath Solomon's daughter, ¹²Baana the son of Ahilud who had Taanach and Megiddo and all Beth-Shean, which is by Zarethan beneath Jezreel, from Beth-Shean to Abel-Meholah, and to beyond Jokmoam, ¹³Ben-Geber in Ramoth-Gilead, who had the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, having the district of Argob, which is in Bashan – sixty large cities with a wall and copper bolt, ¹⁴Ahinadab the son of Iddo in Mahanaim, ¹⁵Ahimaaz in Naphtali, who also took a daughter of Solomon's as his wife, Bosmath, ¹⁶Baanah the son of Hushai in Asher and in Aloth, ¹⁷Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah in Issachar, ¹⁸Shimei the son of Elah in Benjamin, ¹⁹Geber the son of Uri in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and he was the only official who was in the land. ²⁰Judah and Israel were many – like the sand which is by the sea in multitude – eating and drinking and rejoicing. ²¹And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms in the land of the Philistines from the river up to the border with Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life. ²²And Solomon's revenue per day was thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of barley flour, ²³ten fatted oxen and twenty herding oxen and one hundred sheep, apart from deer and gazelles and fallow deer and fatted poultry. ²⁴For he had control of all this side of the river, from Tiphsah to Gaza, of all the kings on this side of the river. And he had peace in all quarters round about. ²⁵And Judah and Israel lived securely, each man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan to Beersheba, all Solomon's days. ²⁶And Solomon had forty thousand horse stables for his chariot fleet, and twelve thousand horsemen. ²⁷These officials sustained King Solomon and everyone who came to King Solomon's table – each official in his month – and they did not neglect anything. ²⁸And they brought barley and straw for the farm horses and for the swift horses, to the place where these were, each according to his duty. ²⁹And God gave wisdom to Solomon, and very great insight and broad understanding, like the sand which is on the sea-shore. ³⁰And Solomon's wisdom increased beyond the wisdom of all the eastern people and beyond all the wisdom of Egypt. ³¹And he became wiser than any man, than Ethan the Ezrahite and Heman, and Chalcol and Darda the sons of Mahol, and his fame was present in all the nations round about. ³²And he spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs amounted to one thousand and five. ³³And he spoke about trees, from the cedar which is in Lebanon to the hyssop which comes out of a wall, and he spoke about cattle and about birds and about reptiles and about fish. ³⁴And people came from all the nations to hear Solomon's wisdom – from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.