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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 Officials
Now King Solomon was king over all Israel.
Now 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.
These were his officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the 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 Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;
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 army; 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 deputies; and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, was 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 men subject to forced labor.
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 had twelve deputies over all Israel, who provided for the king and his household; each man had to provide for a month in the year.
These are the names of the twelve governors:
Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim.
Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim.
These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
Ben-deker, in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elon-bethhanan.
Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;
Ben-hesed, in Arubboth, including Socoh and all the land of Hepher.
Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh was his and all the land of Hepher);
Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);
Baana the son of Ahilud, in 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;
Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead were his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);
Ahimaaz, in Naphtali. (He was married to Basemath, another of Solomon’s daughters.)
Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon);
Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only deputy who 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 Power, Wealth and Wisdom
Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance; they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.
Now Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty kors of fine flour and sixty kors of meal,
ten fat oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, a hundred sheep besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened 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 everything west of the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings west of the River; and he had peace on all sides around about him.
So Judah and Israel lived in safety, every man under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
Solomon had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 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.
Those deputies provided for King Solomon and all who came to King Solomon’s table, each in his month; they left nothing lacking.
They also brought the necessary barley and straw for the royal horses in the stables.
They also brought barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where it should be, each according to his charge.
God gave Solomon very great wisdom and understanding, and knowledge as vast as the sands of the seashore.
Now God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of mind, like the sand that is on the seashore.
In fact, his wisdom exceeded that of all the wise men of the East and the wise men of Egypt.
Solomon’s wisdom surpassed 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, Heman, Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was known in all the surrounding nations.
He composed some 3,000 proverbs and wrote 1,005 songs.
He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005.
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.
He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he spoke also of animals and birds and creeping things and fish.