Chapter 4.
So King Solomon was king over all Israel, and these were the princes which he had.
Azariah the son of Zadok the priest, Elahoreth and Ahiah the sons of Shysha
scribes, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud the recorder, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
was over the host, and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests.
And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers, and Zebud the son of Nathan was
principal officer and the king's friend, and Ahisha was over the household,
and Adoniram the son of Abder was over the tribute.
And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel which provided vittles for the king
and his household.
Each man his month in a year made provision.
And these are their names, the son of Hur in Mount Ephraim, the son of Dika in Makaz
and in Shealbim and Beth Shemesh and Elon Bethanon, the son of Hesed in Aruboth,
to him pertained Soko and all the land of Hepha, the son of Abinadab in all the
region of Dor which had Tephath the daughter of Solomon to wife.
Baena the son of Ahilud, to him pertained Teanach and Megiddo and all Bethshean
which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abel-Meholah,
even unto the place that is beyond Joknium.
The son of Geba in Raimoth-Gilead, to him pertained the towns of Jeor,
the son of Manasseh which are in Gilead.
To him also pertained the region of Argob which is in Bashan, threescore great
cities with walls and brassen bars.
Ahinadab, the son of Iddo, had Maanaim.
Ahimaaz was in Naphtali.
He also took Basmath, the daughter of Solomon, to wife.
Baena, the son of Hushai, was in Asher and in Eiloth.
Jehoshaphat, the son of Perua in Issachar.
Shimei, the son of Elah in Benjamin.
Geba, the son of Uri, was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon,
king of the Amorites.
And of Og, king of Bashan.
And he was the only officer which was in the land.
Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude,
eating and drinking and making merry.
And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the
Philistines, and unto 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 threescore measures of meal, ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the
pastures, and an hundred sheep beside huts, and roebucks, and fallow deer,
and fatted fowl.
For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tifzah even to
Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river.
And he had peace on all sides round about him.
And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig
tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve
thousand horsemen.
And those officers provided vittle for king Solomon, and for all that came under
king Solomon's table, every man in his month.
They lacked nothing.
Barley also, and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place
where the officers were, every man according to his charge.
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and
largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the seashore.
And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country,
and all the wisdom of Egypt.
For he was wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezraite, and Heman,
and Calchol, and Dada the sons of Maho.
And his fame was in all nations round about.
And he spake three thousand proverbs, and his songs were a thousand and five.
And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop
that springeth out of the wall.
He spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the
earth which had heard of his wisdom.