1st Kings 4:13-31

¹³Ben-geber, in Ramoth of Gilead, had Havoth-jair, of the son of Man-asseh, in Gilead; he was sovereign in all the country of Argob, which is in Bashan, to sixty great cities and walled, that had brazen locks.

¹⁴Ahinadab, the son of Iddo, was sovereign in Mahanaim;

¹⁵Ahimaaz was in Naphtali, but also he had Basmath, the daughter of Solomon, in wedlock;

¹⁶Baanah, the son of Hushai, was in Asher, and in Aloth;

¹⁷Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, was in Issachar;

¹⁸Shimei, the son of Elah, was in Benjamin:

¹⁹Geber, the son of Uri, was in the land of Gilead, and in the land of Sihon, king of Amorites, and in the land of Og, king of Bashan, and upon all things that were in that land.

²⁰The people of Judah and Israel were unnumberable, as the sand of the sea in multitude, eating, and drinking, and being glad.

²¹Forsooth Solomon was in his lord-ship, and had all the realms, as from the flood of the land of Philistines, unto the last part of Egypt, of men offering gifts, that is, tributes, to him, and serving to him, in all the days of his life.

²²Forsooth the meat of Solomon was by each day, thirty cors of clean flour of wheat, and sixty cors of meal,

²³ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen of the pasture, and an hundred wethers, besides hunting of harts, of goats, and of bugles, and of birds made fat.

²⁴For he held all the country that was beyond the flood, as from Tiphsah unto Azzah, and all the kings of those countries; and he had peace by each part in compass.

²⁵And Judah and Israel dwelled without any dread, each man under his vine, and under his fig tree, from Dan unto Beersheba, in all the days of Solomon.

²⁶And Solomon had forty thousand cratches of horses for chariots, and twelve thousand of road horses;

²⁷and the foresaid prefects or chief masters of the king nourished those horses. But also with great busyness they gave the necessaries to the board of king Solomon, in their time;

²⁸also they brought barley, and forage of horses and of work beasts, into the place where the king was, after it was ordained to them.

²⁹Also God gave to Solomon wisdom, and prudence full much, and largeness of heart, as the sand that is in the brink of the sea.

³⁰And the wisdom of Solomon passed the wisdom of all the east men, and Egyptians;

³¹and he was wiser than all men; he was wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and than Heman, and than Chalcol, and than Darda, the sons of Mahol; and he was named among all folks by compass.