1 Kings 4:14-33

¹⁴Iddo's son Ahinadab, for Mahanaim city east of the Jordan River;

¹⁵Ahimaaz, who had married Solomon's daughter Basemath, for the territory of the tribe of Naphtali;

¹⁶Hushai's son Baana, for the territory of the tribe of Asher and for Aloth town;

¹⁷Paruah's son Jehoshaphat, for the territory of the tribe of Issachar;

¹⁸Ela's son Shimei, for the territory of the tribe of Benjamin;

¹⁹Uri's son Geber, for the Gilead region, the land that Sihon the king of the Amor people-group formerly ruled, and the Bashan area, which was the area that Og formerly ruled. In addition to all those, Solomon appointed one governor for the territory of the tribe of Judah.

²⁰There were as many people in Judah and Israel as there are grains of sand HYP on the seashore. They had plenty to eat and drink and they were happy.

²¹Solomon's kingdom extended from the Euphrates River in the northeast to the Philistia area in the west and to the border of Egypt in the south. The conquered people in those areas paid taxes and were under Solomon's control for the rest of his life.

²²To feed the people in his palace and his guests Solomon needed people to bring to him every day 150 bushels of fine flour and 300 bushels of wheat,

²³ten cattle that were kept in stalls/barns, twenty cattle that were kept in pastures, 100 sheep, and ◄deer and gazelles and roebucks/three kinds of deer►, and poultry.

²⁴Solomon ruled over all the area west of the Euphrates River, from Tiphsah city in the northeast to Gaza city in the southwest. He ruled over all the kings in that area. And there was peace between his government and the governments of nearby countries.

²⁵All during the years that Solomon ruled, the people of Judah and Israel lived safely. Each family had its own grapevines and fig trees.

²⁶Solomon had 4,000 stalls for the horses that pulled his chariots and 12,000 men who rode on horses (OR, in the chariots).

²⁷His twelve governors supplied the food that King Solomon needed for himself and for all those who ate in the palace. Each governor supplied food for one month each year. They provided everything LIT that Solomon required.

²⁸They also brought stalks of barley and wheat for the fast horses that pulled the chariots and for the other work horses. They brought it to the places where the horses were kept.

²⁹God enabled Solomon to be extremely wise and to have great insight/understanding. He understood about more things than the number of grains of sand on the seashore HYP.

³⁰He was wiser than all the wise men in Arabia and Mesopotamia and all the wise men in Egypt.

³¹Ethan from Ezrah and Heman and Calcol and Darda and the sons of Mahol were considered to be very wise, but Solomon was wiser than all of them. People in all the nearby countries heard about Solomon.

³²He composed/wrote 3,000 ◄proverbs/wise sayings► and more than 1,000 songs.

³³He talked about various kinds of plants, from the huge cedar trees in Lebanon to the tiny hyssop plants that grow in cracks in walls. He also talked about wild animals and birds and reptiles and fish.