| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now King Solomon was king over all Israel. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2These were his officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the deputies; and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, was the king's friend; |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Solomon 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. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim; |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan; |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh was his and all the land of Hepher); |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife); |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Baana 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; |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Ben-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); |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon); |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Geber 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. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance; they were eating and drinking and rejoicing. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Now 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Solomon's provision for one day was thirty kors of fine flour and sixty kors of meal, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23ten fat oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, a hundred sheep besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24For 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. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25So 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. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Solomon had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Those deputies provided for King Solomon and all who came to King Solomon's table, each in his month; they left nothing lacking. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28They also brought barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where it should be, each according to his charge. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Now God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of mind, like the sand that is on the seashore. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31For 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. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33He 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. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Men came from all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom. |
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