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* And king Solomon was king over all Israel . * And these were the rulers he had : Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest . * Elihoreph and Ahiah , the sons of Shisha , were the scribes , Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud the recorder . * And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army . And Zadok and Abiathar were priests . * And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers . And Zabud the son of Nathan was the minister and friend of the king . * And Ahishar was over the household . And Adoniram the son of Abda was over the forced labor . * And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel . And they sustained the king and his household . Each man had one month in the year to provide . * And these are their names : Ben-hur in the hills of Ephraim ; * the son of Dekar in Makaz and in Shaalbim , and Beth-shemesh , and Elon-beth-hanan ; * the son of Hesed , in Aruboth (to him was Sochoh and all the land of Hepher ); * the son of Abinadab in all the height of Dor , Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife ; * Baana the son of Ahilud to whom was Taanach and Megiddo , and all Beth-shean (which is by Zartanah below Jezreel , from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah , to the place that is beyond Jokneam ); * the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead (to him were the towns of Jair , Manasseh 's son , which are in Gilead ; and to him was the region of Argob , which is in Bashan , sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars ); * Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim ; * Ahimaaz was in Naphtali ; he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon for a wife ; * Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth ; * Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah was in Issachar ; * Shimei the son of Elah was in Benjamin ; * Geber the son of Uri was in the land of Gilead , the land of Sihon king of the Amorites , and Og king of Bashan ; and there was one officer who was in the land ; * Judah and Israel were many , as the sand the sea in multitude ; eating and drinking and rejoicing . * And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines , and to the border of Egypt . They brought presents and served Solomon all the days of his life . * And Solomon 's food for one day was thirty measures of fine flour , and sixty measures of meal , * ten fat oxen , and twenty oxen out of the pastures , and a hundred sheep , besides deer and gazelles , and roebucks , and fattened fowl . * For he had the rule over all on this side of the River , from Tiphsah even to Azzah , over all the kings on this side of the River . And he had peace on all sides from around him . * And Judah and Israel lived securely , every man under his vine and under his fig tree ; from Dan even to Beersheba all the days of Solomon . * And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots , and twelve thousand horsemen . * And those officers provided food for king Solomon , and for all who came to king Solomon 's table , a man in his month . they did not lack anything . * They also brought barley and straw for the horses and mules to the place where the officers were , each man according to his charge . * And God gave Solomon exceeding great wisdom and understanding , and largeness of heart , even as the sand that is on the lip of the sea . * And Solomon 's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the sons of the east , and than all the wisdom of Egypt . * For he was wiser than all men ; wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite , and Heman , and Chalcol , and Darda , the sons of Mahol . And his name was in all nations all around . * And he spoke three thousand proverbs , and his songs were a thousand and five . * And he spoke of trees , from the cedar tree in Lebanon , even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall . He spoke also of beasts and of birds , and of creeping things , and of fish . * And there came some from all the people to hear the wisdom of Solomon , from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom .

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