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1.    And king Solomon was king over all Israel.
 
2.    And these are the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of  Zadok was priest;
 
3.    Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes;  Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, chronicler;
 
4.    and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok  and Abiathar were priests;
 
5.    and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the superintendents;  and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, the king`s  friend;
 
6.    and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of  Abda was over the levy-service.
 
7.    And Solomon had twelve superintendents over all Israel; and  they provided food for the king and his household: each man his  month in the year had to make provision.
 
8.    And these are their names: Ben-Hur, in mount Ephraim.
 
9.    Ben-Deker in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and  Elon-Beth-hanan.
 
10.    Ben-Hesed, in Arubboth; he had Sochoh, and all the land of  Hepher.
 
11.    Ben-Abinadab had all the upland of Dor; Taphath the  daughter of Solomon was his wife.
 
12.    Baana the son of Ahilud had Taanach and Megiddo, and all  Beth-shean, which is by Zaretan beneath Jizreel, from  Beth-shean to Abel-Meholah, as far as beyond Jokneam.
 
13.    Ben-Geber, in Ramoth-Gilead; he had the villages of Jair  the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; he had the region of  Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and  bars of bronze.
 
14.    Ahinadab the son of Iddo, at Mahanaim.
 
15.    Ahimaaz, in Nephtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of  Solomon as wife.
 
16.    Baanah the son of Hushai, in Asher and in Aloth.
 
17.    Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar.
 
18.    Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin.
 
19.    Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the land of  Sihon the king of the Amorites, and of Og the king of Bashan;  and he was the only superintendent that 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 ruled over all kingdoms from the river to the  land of the Philistines, and as far as 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 fatted oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a  hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and fallow-deer,  and fatted fowl.
 
24.    For he had dominion over all on this side the river, from  Tiphsah as far as Gazah, over all the kings on this side the  river; and he had peace on all sides round about.
 
25.    And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine  and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, 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 let nothing be wanting.
 
28.    And the barley, and the straw for the horses and coursers,  they brought to the place where the superintendents were,  every man according to his charge.
 
29.    And God gave Solomon wisdom and very great understanding  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 sons of  the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
 
31.    For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and  Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame  was in all the nations round about.
 
32.    And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a  thousand and five.
 
33.    And he spoke of the trees, from the cedar-tree that is on  Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he  spoke also of cattle, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and  of fishes.
 
34.    And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of  Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his  wisdom.