1 Kings 4 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And it came to be that Sovereign Shelomoh was sovereign over all Yisra’ĕ

² And these were his chief officials: Azaryahu son of Tsaḏ

³ Eliḥ

⁴ and Benayahu son of Yehoyaḏ

⁵ and Azaryahu son of Nathan, over the officers; Zaḇ

⁶ and Aḥ

⁷ And Shelomoh had twelve governors over all Yisra’ĕ

⁸ and these were their names: Ben-Ḥ

⁹ Ben-Deqer, in Maqats and Shaʽ

¹⁰ Ben-Ḥ

¹¹ Ben-Aḇ

¹² Baʽ

¹³ Ben-Geḇ

¹⁴ Aḥ

¹⁵ Aḥ

¹⁶ Baʽ

¹⁷ Yehoshaphat son of Paruwaḥ

¹⁸ Shimʽ

¹⁹ Geḇ

²⁰ Yehuḏ

²¹ And Shelomoh was ruling over all reigns from the River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Mitsrayim. They did taskwork and served Shelomoh all the days of his life.

²² And Shelomoh’s food supply for one day was thirty kors of fine flour, and sixty kors of meal,

²³ ten fatted cattle and twenty cattle from the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides deer, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl.

²⁴ For he was ruling over all on this side of the River from Tiphsaḥ

²⁵ And Yehuḏ

²⁶ And Shelomoh had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

²⁷ And these governors, each one in his month, provided food for Sovereign Shelomoh and for all who came to the table of Sovereign Shelomoh. There was no lack in their supply.

²⁸ They also brought barley and straw to the appointed place, for the horses and steeds, each one according to his right- ruling.

²⁹ And Elohim gave Shelomoh exceeding great wisdom and understanding, and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore.

³⁰ And Shelomoh’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the men of the East and all the wisdom of Mitsrayim.

³¹ For he was wiser than all men, than Ě

³² And he spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five.

³³ And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree of Leḇ

³⁴ And there came from all peoples, from all the sovereigns of the earth who had heard of his wisdom, to hear the wisdom of Shelomoh.