1 E assim o rei Salomão tornou-se rei sobre todo o Israel.
2 E estes foram os seus principais assessores: Azarias, filho de Zadoque: o sacerdote;
3 Eliorefe e Aías, filhos de Sisa: secretários; Josafá, filho de Ailude: arquivista real;
4 Benaia, filho de Joiada: comandante do exército; Zadoque e Abiatar: sacerdotes;
5 Azarias, filho de Natã: responsável pelos governadores distritais; Zabude, filho de Natã: sacerdote e conselheiro pessoal do rei;
6 Aisar: responsável pelo palácio; Adonirão, filho de Abda: chefe de trabalhos forçados.
7 Salomão tinha também, doze governadores distritais em todo o Israel, que forneciam provisões para o rei e para o palácio real. Cada um deles tinha que fornecer suprimentos durante um mês do ano.
8 Estes são os seus nomes: Ben-Hur, nos montes de Efraim;
9 Ben-Dequer, em Macaz, Saalbim, Bete-Semes e Elom-Bete-Hanã;
10 Ben-Hesede, em Arubote, Socó e toda a terra de Héfer;
11 Ben-Abinadabe, em Nafote-Dor. Tafate, filha de Salomão, era sua mulher;
12 Baaná, filho de Ailude, em Taanaque e Megido e toda Bete-Seã, próxima de Zaretã, abaixo de Jezreel, desde Bete-Seã até Abel-Meolá, indo além dos limites de Jocmeão;
13 Ben-Geder, em Ramote-Gileade e nos povoados de Jair, filho de Manassés, em Gileade, bem como o distrito de Argobe, em Basã, e as suas sessenta grandes cidades muradas com trancas de bronze nos portões;
14 Ainadabe, filho de Ido, em Maanaim;
15 Aimaás, em Naftali. Ele se casou com Basemate, filha de Salomão;
16 Baaná, filho de Husai, em Aser e em Bealote;
17 Josafá, filho de Parua, em Issacar;
18 Simei, filho de Elá, em Benjamim;
19 Geber, filho de Uri, em Gileade, a terra de Seom, rei dos amorreus, e de Ogue, rei de Basã. Ele era o único governador desse distrito.
20 Judá e Israel eram tão numerosos como a areia da praia; eles comiam, bebiam e eram felizes.
21 E Salomão governava todos os reinos, desde o Rio até a terra dos filisteus, chegando até a fronteira do Egito. Esses reinos traziam tributos e foram submissos a Salomão durante toda a sua vida.
22 As provisões diárias de Salomão eram trinta tonéis da melhor farinha e sessenta tonéis de farinha comum,
23 dez cabeças de gado engordado em cocheiras, vinte de gado engordado no pasto e cem ovelhas e bodes, bem como cervos, gazelas, corças e aves escolhidas.
24 Ele governava todos os reinos a oeste do Rio, desde Tifsa até Gaza, e tinha paz em todas as fronteiras.
25 Durante a vida de Salomão, Judá e Israel viveram em segurança, cada homem debaixo da sua videira e da sua figueira, desde Dã até Berseba.
26 Salomão possuía quatro mil cocheiras para cavalos de carros de guerra, e doze mil cavalos.
27 Todo mês um dos governadores distritais fornecia provisões ao rei Salomão e a todos os que vinham participar de sua mesa. Cuidavam para que não faltasse nada.
28 Também traziam ao devido lugar suas quotas de cevada e de palha para os cavalos de carros de guerra e para os outros cavalos.
29 Deus deu a Salomão sabedoria, discernimento extraordinário e uma abrangência de conhecimento tão imensurável quanto a areia do mar.
30 A sabedoria de Salomão era maior do que a de todos os homens do oriente, bem como de toda a sabedoria do Egito.
31 Ele era mais sábio do que qualquer outro homem, mais do que o ezraíta Etã; mais sábio do que Hemã, Calcol e Darda, filhos de Maol. E a sua fama espalhou-se por todas as nações em redor.
32 Ele compôs três mil provérbios, e os seus cânticos chegaram a mil e cinco.
33 Descreveu as plantas, desde o cedro do Líbano até o hissopo que brota nos muros. Também discorreu sobre os quadrúpedes, as aves, os animais que se movem rente ao chão e os peixes.
34 Homens de todas as nações vinham ouvir a sabedoria de Salomão. Eram enviados por todos os reis que tinham ouvido falar de 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.