| 1 | King Solomon was king over all Israel. |
| 2 | These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest; |
| 3 | Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder; |
| 4 | and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; |
| 5 | and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, the king's friend; |
| 6 | and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor. |
| 7 | Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year. |
| 8 | These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim; |
| 9 | Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan; |
| 10 | Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him belonged Socoh, and all the land of Hepher); |
| 11 | Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife); |
| 12 | Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam; |
| 13 | Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (to him belonged the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him belonged the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars); |
| 14 | Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; |
| 15 | Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife); |
| 16 | Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; |
| 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 country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who 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 | 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. |
| 22 | Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal, |
| 23 | ten head of fat cattle, and twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl. |
| 24 | For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him. |
| 25 | Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. |
| 26 | Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. |
| 27 | 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 lacking. |
| 28 | Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they to the place where the officers were, every man according to his duty. |
| 29 | God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore. |
| 30 | Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children 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 all around. |
| 32 | He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five. |
| 33 | He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish. |
| 34 | There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom. |
