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Solomon’s Officials and Governors
King Solomon now ruled over all Israel,
King Solomon now ruled over all Israel,
Solomon's Princes
And king Solomon was king over all Israel.
And king Solomon was king over all Israel.
and these were his high officials:
Azariah son of Zadok was the priest.
Azariah son of Zadok was the priest.
And these are the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok was priest;
Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were court secretaries.
Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the royal historian.
Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the royal historian.
Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, chronicler;
Benaiah son of Jehoiada was commander of the army.
Zadok and Abiathar were priests.
Zadok and Abiathar were priests.
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
Azariah son of Nathan was in charge of the district governors.
Zabud son of Nathan, a priest, was a trusted adviser to the king.
Zabud son of Nathan, a priest, was a trusted adviser to the king.
and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the superintendents; and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, the king's friend;
Ahishar was manager of the palace property.
Adoniram son of Abda was in charge of forced labor.
Adoniram son of Abda was in charge of forced labor.
and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy-service.
Solomon also had twelve district governors who were over all Israel. They were responsible for providing food for the king’s household. Each of them arranged provisions for one month of the year.
Solomon's Twelve Officers
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.
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.
These are the names of the twelve governors:
Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim.
Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim.
And these are their names: Ben-Hur, in mount Ephraim.
Ben-deker, in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elon-bethhanan.
Ben-Deker in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-Beth-hanan.
Ben-hesed, in Arubboth, including Socoh and all the land of Hepher.
Ben-Hesed, in Arubboth; he had Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher.
Ben-Abinadab had all the upland of Dor; Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife.
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.
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.
Ahimaaz, in Naphtali. (He was married to Basemath, another of Solomon’s daughters.)
Ahimaaz, in Nephtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon as wife.
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.
Solomon’s Prosperity and Wisdom
The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They were very contented, with plenty to eat and drink.
Solomon's Wealth
Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
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.
And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,
ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl.
Solomon’s dominion extended over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates River, from Tiphsah to Gaza. And there was peace on all his borders.
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.
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.
And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
The district governors faithfully provided food for King Solomon and his court; each made sure nothing was lacking during the month assigned to him.
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.
They also brought the necessary barley and straw for the royal horses in the stables.
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.
God gave Solomon very great wisdom and understanding, and knowledge as vast as the sands of the seashore.
Solomon's Wisdom
And God gave Solomon wisdom and very great understanding and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.
And God gave Solomon wisdom and very great understanding and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.
In fact, his wisdom exceeded that of all the wise men of the East and the wise men of Egypt.
And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
He was wiser than anyone else, including Ethan the Ezrahite and the sons of Mahol — Heman, Calcol, and Darda. His fame spread throughout all the surrounding nations.
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.
He composed some 3,000 proverbs and wrote 1,005 songs.
And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.
He could speak with authority about all kinds of plants, from the great cedar of Lebanon to the tiny hyssop that grows from cracks in a wall. He could also speak about animals, birds, small creatures, and fish.
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.