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* And King Solomon was king over all Israel . * And these were the princes whom he had : Azariah the son of Zadok , the priest ; * Elihoreph and Ahijah , the sons of Shisha , scribes ; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud , the recorder ; * and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host ; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests ; * and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers ; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief ruler , [and ] the king 's friend ; * and Ahishar was over the household ; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to slave labor . * And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel , who provided victuals for the king and his household : each man had to make provision for a month in the year . * And these are their names : Ben-hur , in the hill-country of Ephraim ; * Ben-deker , in Makaz , and in Shaalbim , and Beth-shemesh , and Elon-beth-hanan ; * Ben-hesed , in Arubboth (to him [pertained ] Socoh , and all the land of Hepher ); * Ben-abinadab , in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife ); * Baana the son of Ahilud , in Taanach and Megiddo , and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan , beneath Jezreel , from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah , as far as beyond Jokmeam ; * Ben-geber , in Ramoth-gilead (to him [pertained ] the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh , which are in Gilead ; [even ] to him [pertained ] the region of Argob , which is in Bashan , threescore great cities with walls and bronze bars ); * Ahinadab the son of Iddo , in Mahanaim ; * Ahimaaz , in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife ); * Baana the son of Hushai , in Asher and Bealoth ; * Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah , in Issachar ; * Shimei the son of Ela , in Benjamin ; * Geber 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 officer that was in the land . * Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude , eating and drinking and making merry . * And 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 . * And Solomon 's provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour , and threescore cors of meal , * ten fat oxen , and twenty oxen out of the pastures , and a hundred sheep , besides harts , and gazelles , and roebucks , and fatted fowl . * For he had dominion over all [the region ] on this side the River , from Tiphsah even to Gaza , over all the kings on this side the River : and he had peace on all sides round about him . * And Judah and Israel dwelt safely , every man under his vine and under his fig-tree , from Dan even to Beer-sheba , all the days of Solomon . * And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots , and twelve thousand horsemen . * And those officers provided victuals for King Solomon , and for all who came to king Solomon 's table , every man in his month ; they let nothing be lacking . * Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds they brought to the place where [the officers ] were , every man according to his charge . * And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceedingly much , and largeness of heart , even as the sand that is on the seashore . * And Solomon 's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the sons of the east , and all the wisdom of Egypt . * For he was wiser than all of man ; than Ethan the Ezrahite , and Heman , and Calcol , and Darda , the sons of Mahol : and his fame was in all the nations round about . * And he spoke three thousand proverbs ; and his songs were a thousand and five . * And he spoke of trees , from the cedar that is 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 of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon , from all kings of the earth , who had heard of his wisdom .

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