1 Kings 4:7-28

7Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, who secured provisions for the king and his household; each man had to provide for a month in the year.

8These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of [the tribe of] Ephraim;

9Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elon-beth-hanan;

10Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him belonged Socoh and all the land of Hepher);

11Ben-abinadab, in all the hills of Dor (Taphath, Solomon’s daughter, was his wife);

12Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach, Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah as far as beyond Jokmeam;

13Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead belonged to him, also the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);

14Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

15Ahimaaz, in [the tribe of] Naphtali (he also married Basemath, Solomon’s daughter);

16Baana the son of Hushai, in [the tribe of] Asher and Bealoth;

17Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in [the tribe of] Issachar;

18Shimei the son of Ela, in [the tribe of] Benjamin;

19Geber 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 who was in the land.

20[The people of] Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is in abundance by the sea; they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.

21Now Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the [Euphrates] River to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute (money) and served Solomon all the days of his life.

22Solomon’s food [for the royal household] for one day was thirty kors of finely milled flour, sixty kors of wheat flour,

23ten fat oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, a hundred sheep not counting fallow deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.

24For he was ruling over everything west of the [Euphrates] River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings west of the [Euphrates] River; and he had peace on all sides around him.

25Judah and Israel lived in security, every man under his vine and fig tree [in peace and prosperity], from Dan [in the north] to Beersheba [in the south], during all the days of Solomon.

26Solomon also had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.

27Those deputies provided food for King Solomon and for all [the staff] who came to King Solomon’s table, each in his month; they let nothing be lacking.

28They also brought the barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds (warhorses, chargers) to the place where it was needed, each man according to his assignment.