1 Assim foi Salomão rei sobre todo o Israel.
2 E estes eram os príncipes que tinha: Azarias, filho de Zadoque, sacerdote;
3 Eliorefe e Aías, filhos de Sisa, secretários; Jeosafá, filho de Ailude, cronista;
4 Benaia, filho de Joiada, sobre o exército; e Zadoque e Abiatar eram sacerdotes;
5 E Azarias, filho de Natã, sobre os provedores; e Zabude, filho de Natã, oficial-mor, amigo do rei;
6 E Aisar, mordomo; Adonirão, filho de Abda, sobre o tributo.
7 E tinha Salomão doze oficiais sobre todo o Israel, que proviam ao rei e à sua casa; e cada um tinha que abastecê-lo por um mês no ano.
8 E estes são os seus nomes: Ben-Hur, nas montanhas de Efraim;
9 Ben-Dequer em Macaz, e em Saalbim, e em Bete-Semes, e em Elom, e em Bete-Hanã;
10 Ben-Hesede em Arubote; também este tinha a Socó e a toda a terra de Hefer;
11 Ben-Abinadabe em todo o termo de Dor; tinha este a Tafate, filha de Salomão, por mulher;
12 Baana, filho de Ailude, tinha a Taanaque, e a Megido, e a toda a Bete-Seã, que está junto a Zaretã, abaixo de Jizreel, desde Bete-Seã até Abel-Meolá, para além de Jocmeão;
13 O filho de Geber, em Ramote de Gileade; tinha este as aldeias de Jair, filho de Manassés, as quais estão em Gileade; também tinha o termo de Argobe, o qual está em Basã, sessenta grandes cidades, com muros e ferrolhos de cobre;
14 Ainadabe, filho de Ido, em Maanaim.
15 Aimaás em Naftali; também este tomou a Basemate, filha de Salomão, por mulher;
16 Baaná, filho de Husai, em Aser e em Alote;
17 Jeosafá, filho de Parua, em Issacar;
18 Simei, filho de Elá, em Benjamim:
19 Geber, filho de Uri, na terra de Gileade, a terra de Siom, rei dos amorreus, e de Ogue, rei de Basã; e só uma guarnição havia naquela terra.
20 Eram, pois, os de Judá e Israel muitos, como a areia que está junto ao mar em multidão, comendo, e bebendo, e alegrando-se.
21 E dominava Salomão sobre todos os reinos desde o rio até à terra dos filisteus, e até ao termo do Egito; os quais traziam presentes, e serviram a Salomão todos os dias da sua vida.
22 Era, pois, o provimento de Salomão cada dia, trinta coros de flor de farinha, e sessenta coros de farinha;
23 Dez bois cevados, e vinte bois de pasto, e cem carneiros; afora os veados e as cabras montesas, e os corços, e aves cevadas.
24 Porque dominava sobre tudo quanto havia do lado de cá do rio, Tifsa até Gaza, sobre todos os reis do lado de cá do rio; e tinha paz de todos os lados em redor dele.
25 E Judá e Israel habitavam seguros, cada um debaixo da sua videira, e debaixo da sua figueira, desde Dã até Berseba, todos os dias de Salomão.
26 Tinha também Salomão quarenta mil estrebarias de cavalos para os seus carros, e doze mil cavaleiros.
27 Proviam, pois, estes provedores, cada um no seu mês, ao rei Salomão e a todos quantos se chegaram à mesa do rei Salomão; coisa nenhuma deixavam faltar.
28 E traziam a cevada e a palha para os cavalos e para os ginetes, para o lugar onde estava, cada um segundo o seu cargo.
29 E deu Deus a Salomão sabedoria, e muitíssimo entendimento, e largueza de coração, como a areia que está na praia do mar.
30 E era a sabedoria de Salomão maior do que a sabedoria de todos os do oriente e do que toda a sabedoria dos egípcios.
31 E era ele ainda mais sábio do que todos os homens, e do que Etã, ezraíta, e Hemã, e Calcol, e Darda, filhos de Maol; e correu o seu nome por todas as nações em redor.
32 E disse três mil provérbios, e foram os seus cânticos mil e cinco.
33 Também falou das árvores, desde o cedro que está no Líbano até ao hissopo que nasce na parede; também falou dos animais e das aves, e dos répteis e dos peixes.
34 E vinham de todos os povos a ouvir a sabedoria de Salomão, e de todos os reis da terra que tinham ouvido da sua sabedoria.
1 Now Solomon was king over all Israel.
2 And these were his chief men: Azariah, the son of Zadok, was the priest;
3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were scribes; Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the recorder;
4 Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was head of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
5 Azariah, the son of Nathan, was over those in authority in the different divisions of the country; Zabud, the son of Nathan, was priest and the king's friend;
6 Ahishar was controller of the king's house; Adoniram, the son of Abda, was overseer of the forced work.
7 And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house; every man was responsible for one month in the year.
8 And these are their names: ... the son of Hur in the hill country of Ephraim;
9 ... the son of Deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;
10 ... the son of Hesed in Arubboth; Socoh and all the land of Hepher were under his control;
11 ... the son of Abinadab in all Naphath-dor; his wife was Taphath, the daughter of Solomon.
12 Baana, the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is by the side of Zarethan, under Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the far side of Jokmeam;
13 ... the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead; he had the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and the country of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great towns with walls and locks of brass.
14 Ahinadab, the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
15 Ahimaaz in Naphtali; he took Basemath, the daughter of Solomon, as his wife;
16 Baana, the son of Hushai, in Asher and Aloth;
17 Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
18 Shimei, the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
19 Geber, the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan; and one overseer had authority over all the overseers who were in the land.
20 Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts.
21 And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life.
22 And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;
23 Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.
24 For he had authority over all the country on this side of the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings on this side of the River; and he had peace round him on every side.
25 So Judah and Israel were living safely, every man under his vine and his fig-tree, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
26 And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen.
27 And those overseers, every man in his month, saw that food was produced for Solomon and all his guests, they took care that nothing was overlooked.
28 And they took grain and dry grass for the horses and the carriage-horses, to the right place, every man as he was ordered.
29 And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside.
30 And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.
31 For he was wiser than all men, even than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman and Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and he had a great name among all the nations round about.
32 He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.
33 He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth.
34 People came from every nation to give ear to the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had word of his wisdom.