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Verse 1

And king Solomon is king over all Israel,

Verse 2

and these `are' the heads whom he hath: Azariah son of Zadok `is' the priest;

Verse 3

Elihoreph and Ahiah sons of Shisha `are' scribes; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud `is' remembrancer;

Verse 4

and Benaiah son of Jehoiada `is' over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar `are' priests;

Verse 5

and Azariah son of Nathan `is' over the officers; and Zabud son of Nathan `is' minister, friend of the king;

Verse 6

And Ahishar `is' over the household, and Adoniram son of Abda `is' over the tribute.

Verse 7

And Solomon hath twelve officers over all Israel, and they have sustained the king and his household -- a month in the year is on each one for sustenance;

Verse 8

and these `are' their names: Ben-Hur in the hill-country of Ephraim;

Verse 9

Ben-Dekar in Makaz, and Shaalbim, and Beth-Shemesh, and Elon-Beth-Hanan.

Verse 10

Ben-Hesed `is' in Aruboth, hath Sochoh and all the land of Hepher;

Verse 11

Ben-Abinadab `hath' all the elevation of Dor, Taphath daughter of Solomon became his wife.

Verse 12

Baana Ben-Ahilud `hath' Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-Shean, which `is' by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-Shean unto Abel-Meholah, unto beyond Jokneam.

Verse 13

Ben-Geber, in Ramoth-Gilead, hath the small towns of Jair son of Manasseh, which `are' in Gilead; he hath a portion of Argob that `is' in Bashan, sixty great cities `with' wall and brazen bar.

Verse 14

Ahinadab son of Iddo `hath' Mahanaim.

Verse 15

Ahimaaz `is' in Naphtali; he also hath taken Basemath daughter of Solomon for a wife.

Verse 16

Baanah Ben-Hushai `is' in Asher, and in Aloth.

Verse 17

Jehoshaphat Ben-Paruah `is' in Issachar.

Verse 18

Shimei Ben-Elah `is' in Benjamin.

Verse 19

Geber Ben-Uri `is' in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon king of the Amorite, and of Og king of Bashan: and one officer who `is' in the land.

Verse 20

Judah and Israel `are' many, as the sand that `is' by the sea for multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing.

Verse 21

And Solomon hath been ruling over all the kingdoms, from the River `to' the land of the Philistines and unto the border of Egypt: they are bringing nigh a present, and serving Solomon, all days of his life.

Verse 22

And the provision of Solomon for one day is thirty cors of flour, and sixty cors of meal;

Verse 23

ten fat oxen, and twenty feeding oxen, and a hundred sheep, apart from hart, and roe, and fallow-deer, and fatted beasts of the stalls,

Verse 24

for he is ruling over all beyond the river, from Tiphsah and unto Gaza, over all the kings beyond the river, and he hath peace from all his servants round about.

Verse 25

And Judah dwelleth -- and Israel -- in confidence, each under his vine, and under his fig-tree, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, all the days of Solomon.

Verse 26

And Solomon hath forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

Verse 27

And these officers have sustained king Solomon and every one drawing near unto the table of king Solomon, each `in' his month; they let nothing be lacking.

Verse 28

And the barley and the straw, for horses and for dromedaries, they bring in unto the place where they are, each according to his ordinance.

Verse 29

And God giveth wisdom to Solomon, and understanding, very much, and breadth of heart, as the sand that `is' on the edge of the sea;

Verse 30

and the wisdom of Solomon is greater than the wisdom of any of the sons of the east, and than all the wisdom of Egypt;

Verse 31

and he is wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, sons of Mahol, and his name is in all the nations round about.

Verse 32

And he speaketh three thousand similes, and his songs `are' five, and the chief one;

Verse 33

and he speaketh concerning the trees, from the cedar that `is' in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that is coming out in the wall, and he speaketh concerning the cattle, and concerning the fowl, and concerning the creeping things, and concerning the fishes,

Verse 34

and there come out of all the peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth who have heard of his wisdom.

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