1 Kings 4:5-26

⁵And Azaryahu the son of Nathan was over the superintendents; and Zabud the son of Nathan was an officer of state and the king's friend;

⁶And Achishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of 'Abda was over the tribute.

⁷And Solomon had twelve superintendents over all Israel, who provided for the king and his household: one month in the year had the particular one to procure provisions.

⁸And these are their names: Ben-chur on the mountain of Ephraim;

⁹Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Sha'albim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-chanan;

¹⁰Ben-chessed, in Arubboth; to him pertained Sochoh and all the land of Chepher;

¹¹Ben-abinadab, in all the district of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon for wife;

¹²Ba'ana the son of Achilud in Tha'anach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zarethanah beneath Yizre'el, from Beth-shean to Abel-mecholah, as far as beyond Yokme'am;

¹³Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gil'ad; to him pertained the villages of Ya'ir the son of Menasseh, which are in Gil'ad; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and brazen bars;

¹⁴Achinadab the son of 'Iddo in Machanayim;

¹⁵Achima'az in Naphtali; he also took Bahsemath the daughter of Solomon for wife;

¹⁶Ba'anah the son of Chushai in Asher and in Be'aloth;

¹⁷Jehoshaphat the son of Paruach, in Issachar;

¹⁸Shim'i the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

¹⁹Geber the son of Uri in the country of Gil'ad, the country of Sichon the king of the Emorites, and of 'Og the king of Bashan; besides the one superintendent who was in the land.

²⁰Judah and Israel were numerous, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude; and they ate and drank, and made merry.

²¹(5:1) And Solomon was ruling over all the kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and as far as the boundary of Egypt, which brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.

²²(5:2) And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty kors of fine flour, and sixty kors of meal,

²³(5:3) Ten fatted oxen, and twenty pasture oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and roebucks, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl.

²⁴(5:4) For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Thiphsach even to Gazzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.

²⁵(5:5) And Judah and Israel dwelt in safety, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba', all the days of Solomon.

²⁶(5:6) And Solomon had forty thousand stalls for the horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.