1 Kings 4:7-28

7Solomon appointed 12 district governors in Israel. They were to provide food for the king and his palace. Each one had to supply food for one month every year.

8Their names were Benhur, who was in charge of the hills of Ephraim,

9Bendeker, who was in charge of Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan, and

10Benhesed, who was in charge of Arubboth, Socoh, and the entire region of Hepher.

11Benabinadab had the entire region of Dor. (Solomon’s daughter Taphath was his wife.)

12Baana, son of Ahilud, had Taanach, Megiddo, and all of Beth Shean. (This was near Zarethan, below Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah and over to Jokmeam.)

13Bengeber was in charge of Ramoth Gilead; he had the settlements of Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, in Gilead. He ⌞also⌟ had the territory of Argob in Bashan, 60 large cities with walls and bronze bars across their gates.

14Ahinadab, son of Iddo, was in charge of Mahanaim.

15Ahimaaz was in charge of Naphtali. (He also married Solomon’s daughter Basemath.)

16Baana, son of Hushai, was in charge of Asher and Aloth.

17Jehoshaphat, son of Paruah, was in charge of Issachar.

18Shimei, son of Ela, was in charge of Benjamin.

19Geber, son of Uri, was in charge of Gilead, the territory of King Sihon the Amorite and King Og of Bashan. (There was only one governor in that territory.)

20The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They ate and drank and lived happily.

21Solomon ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the country of the Philistines and as far as the Egyptian border. These kingdoms paid taxes and were subject to Solomon as long as he lived.

22Solomon’s food supply for one day was 180 bushels of flour, 360 bushels of coarse flour,

2310 fattened cows, 20 cows from the pasture, and 100 sheep in addition to deer, gazelles, fallow deer, and fattened birds.

24He controlled all the territory west of the Euphrates River from Tiphsah to Gaza and all of its kings. So he lived in peace with all the neighboring countries.

25As long as Solomon lived, Judah and Israel (from Dan to Beersheba) lived securely, everyone under his own vine and fig tree.

26Solomon had stalls for 40,000 chariot horses. He also had 12,000 chariot soldiers.

27Each of the governors provided food for one month every year for King Solomon and all who ate at his table. The governors saw to it that nothing was in short supply.

28They brought their quota of barley and straw for the chariot horses to the proper places.