1 Kings 4
1NOW when king Solomon reigned over Israel
2these were his principal officers:
3Azarias, son of Sadok, Eliaph and Achia, sons of Seba, were scribes; and Josaphat son of Achilud, recorder;
4and Banaias son of Jodae, captain general of the army; and Sadok and Abiathar, chief priests;
5and Ornia, son of Nathan, superintendant of the overseers; and Zabuth, son of Nathan, the king’s companion;
6and Achisar was steward; and Eliak, high steward; and Eliab son of Saph was over the household; and Adoniram son of Audon was over the tribute.
7And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel to supply the king and his household, each to furnish supplies one month in the year,
8and these were their names: Been son of Or, on mount Ephraim, one.
9Son Dakar, at Makis, and at Salabin, and at Baithsamys, and Elon even to Bethanon: another.
10Son Esdi at Araboth: to him belonged Socho and all the land of Opher.
11And over all Nephador was son Aminadab, who had to wife Tephath, a daughter of Solomon: another.
12Bana, son of Achiluth, had Ithanach and Mageddo and all the house of San, which is by Sephanan below Esrae, and from Bethsan to Sabelmaula even to Maeberlukam: another.
13Son Naber at Raboth Galaad; he had the district of Ergab in Basan, containing sixty large cities with walls and brazen bars: another.
14Achinadab, son of Saddo, at Maanaim.
15Achimaas, who married Basemmath, a daughter of Solomon, was in Nephthalheim: another.
16Bana, son of Chousi, in Asser and in Baaloth: another.
18Semei son of Ela, in Benjamin.
19Gaber son of Adai, in the land of Gad, which belonged to Seon, king of Esebon; and Og, king of Basan, and Naseph, another, in the land of Juda;
17Josaphat, son of Phaasud, in Issachar.
27These officers thus stationed furnished supplies for king Solomon, and all things ordered for the king’s table, each his month, without the least variation from what was ordered.
28The barley and straw, for the horses and chariot mares, they carried to the place where the king happened to be, each in his course.
22Now these were the stated portions for Solomon every day, thirty cores of fine flour and sixty cor-measures of barley meal;
23ten choice young calves, and twenty oxen from the pasture, and one hundred sheep besides hinds and fallow deer, and fatted fowls;
24for he was supreme on this side the river, and was at peace with all round about.
29And the Lord gave Solomon understanding and very comprehensive knowledge; and the effusions of his heart were like the sand on the seashore;
30so that Solomon far excelled the wisdom of all the ancients and all the wise men of Egypt.
31He gave specimens of wisdom beyond all men—far beyond Gaithan the Zarite, and Ainan, and Chelkad and Darala, the sons of Mal.
32He uttered three thousand parables, and his odes were five thousand.
33He spoke of trees from the cedar which is on Lebanon, to the hyssop which springeth out of the wall. He spoke also of cattle, and of fowls, and of reptiles, and of fishes.
34And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth who heard the fame thereof. And Solomon took to wife the daughter of Pharao, and brought her to the city of David until he built the house of the Lord, and his own house, and the wall of Jerusalem: and Pharao king of Egypt, came up and took Gazer, and burned it, and subdued the Chananites who dwelt in Mergab, and gave them as a portion to his daughter, Solomon’s wife, and Solomon rebuilt Gazer.