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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1So King Solomon ruled over all Israel. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And these were his chief officials: Azariah son of Zadok--the priest; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Elihoreph and Ahijah, sons of Shisha--secretaries; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud--recorder; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Benaiah son of Jehoiada--commander in chief; Zadok and Abiathar--priests; |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Azariah son of Nathan--in charge of the district governors; Zabud son of Nathan--a priest and adviser to the king; |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Ahishar--palace administrator; Adoniram son of Abda--in charge of forced labor. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Solomon had twelve district governors over all Israel, who supplied provisions for the king and the royal household. Each one had to provide supplies for one 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, Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh and Elon Bethhanan; |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Ben-Hesed--in Arubboth (Sokoh and all the land of Hepher were his); |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Ben-Abinadab--in Naphoth Dor (he was married to Taphath daughter of Solomon); |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Baana son of Ahilud--in Taanach and Megiddo, and in all of Beth Shan next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth Shan to Abel Meholah across to Jokmeam; |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Ben-Geber--in Ramoth Gilead (the settlements of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead were his, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan and its sixty large walled cities with bronze gate bars); |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Ahinadab son of Iddo--in Mahanaim; |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Ahimaaz--in Naphtali (he had married Basemath daughter of Solomon); |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Baana son of Hushai--in Asher and in Aloth; |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Jehoshaphat son of Paruah--in Issachar; |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Shimei son of Ela--in Benjamin; |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Geber son of Uri--in Gilead (the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and the country of Og king of Bashan). He was the only governor over the district. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore; they ate, they drank and they were happy. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These countries brought tribute and were Solomon's subjects all his life. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Solomon's daily provisions were thirty cors of the finest flour and sixty cors of meal, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23ten head of stall-fed cattle, twenty of pasture-fed cattle and a hundred sheep and goats, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks and choice fowl. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24For he ruled over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, and had peace on all sides. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25During Solomon's lifetime Judah and Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, lived in safety, everyone under their own vine and under their own fig tree. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Solomon had four thousand stalls for chariot horses, and twelve thousand horses. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27The district governors, each in his month, supplied provisions for King Solomon and all who came to the king's table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28They also brought to the proper place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and the other horses. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29God gave Solomon wisdom and very great insight, and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand on the seashore. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East, and greater than all the wisdom of Egypt. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31He was wiser than anyone else, including Ethan the Ezrahite--wiser than Heman, Kalkol and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread to all the surrounding nations. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32He spoke three thousand proverbs and his songs numbered a thousand and five. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33He spoke about plant life, from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of walls. He also spoke about animals and birds, reptiles and fish. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34From all nations people came to listen to Solomon's wisdom, sent by all the kings of the world, who had heard of his wisdom. |
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