3 Eliorefe e Aiás (filhos de Sisa) exerciam as funções de secretários; Jeosafá (filho de Ailude) era cronista;

4 Benaia (filho de Jeoiada) era o comandante do exército; Zadoque e Abiatar eram sacerdotes;

5 Azarias (filho de Natã) tinha as funções de administrador-geral; Zabude (filho de Natã) era sacerdote e o seu conselheiro especial;

6 Aisar, chefiava a casa real; Adonirão (filho de Abda) superintendia sobre os trabalhos obrigatórios.

9 Bene-Dequer, que tinha a área de Macaz, de Saalabim, de Bete-Semes, de Elom e de Bete-Hanã;

10 Bene-Hesede, com a área de Arubote, incluindo Socó e toda a terra de Hefer;

11 Bene-Abinadabe (que casou com a filha de Salomão, a princesa Tafate), responsável pela área das serranias de Dor;

12 Baaná (filho de Ailude), responsável por Taanaque, Megido, toda a Bete-Seã perto de Zaretã, abaixo de Jezreel e todo o território desde Bete-Seã até Abel-Meolá e até Jocmeão;

13 Bene-Geber, cuja área era Ramote-Gileade, incluindo as povoações de Jair (o filho de Manassés) que estão em Gileade; mais a região de Argobe em Basã, incluindo também sessenta cidades muradas e com portões de bronze;

14 Ainadabe (filho de Iddo), cuja área era Maanaim;

15 Aimaaz (que casou com a princesa Basemate, outra filha de Salomão), que tinha a área de Naftali;

16 Baana (filho de Husai), cujas áreas eram Aser e Bealote;

17 Jeosafá (filho de Paruá), que tinha a área de Issacar;

18 Simei (filho de Ela), com a área de Benjamim;

19 Havia depois um administrador que supervisava todo este trabalho.

20 Israel e Judá, nesse tempo, eram uma nação rica, próspera, populosa. O rei Salomão governava um extenso território que ia desde o rio Eufrates até à terra dos filisteus, descendo até à fronteira com o Egipto. Os povos destas áreas, que tinham sido conquistados, pagavam impostos a Salomão, e estiveram-lhe sujeitos toda a sua vida.

22 A provisão alimentar para o palácio real, diariamente, era de 6.825 litros de farinha e de 13.650 litros de cereais, dez vacas engordadas, e outras trazidas dos pastos, cem ovelhas e, de vez em quando, veados, gazelas, cabras monteses e gordas aves de capoeira.

24 O seu domínio alargava-se a todos os reinos do oriente do rio Eufrates, desde Tifsa até Gaza. E havia paz em toda a terra.

25 Durante o tempo do reinado de Salomão, Israel e Judá viveram em paz e segurança; cada família possuia a sua própria casa com o seu jardim.

26 Salomão possuía ainda quarenta mil cavalos, para os seus carros de combate e doze mil cavaleiros.

27 Em cada mês, como se viu, os administradores forneciam a casa real de alimento;

28 além de cevada e palha para as estrebarias reais.

29 Deus deu a Salomão grande sabedoria e inteligência, assim como muito conhecimento. De facto, a sua sabedoria excedia a de qualquer sábio do Oriente, incluindo os do Egipto. Era mais sábio do que Etã o ezraíta, e do que Hemã, Calcol e Darda, os filhos de Maol; a sua fama estendeu-se a todas as nações vizinhas. Foi o autor de 3.000 provérbios e escreveu 1.005 cânticos. Interessou-se muito pela natureza, pela vida dos animais quadrúpedes, das aves, dos répteis, dos peixes, assim como das plantas - desde os grandes cedros do Líbano até ao mais insignificante hissope que cresce nas fendas do muros. Reis de muitas terras mandaram-lhe embaixadores pedindo-lhe conselhos.

1 And King Solomon was king over all Israel.

2 And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;

4 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

5 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief ruler, [and] the king's friend;

6 and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to slave labor.

7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

8 And these are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;

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

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

11 Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

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

13 Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (to him [pertained] the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; [even] to him [pertained] the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and bronze bars);

14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

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

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 of Og king of Bashan; and [he was] the only officer that was in the land.

20 Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

21 And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life.

22 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, and threescore cors of meal,

23 ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl.

24 For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides round about him.

25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

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

27 And those officers provided victuals for King Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.

28 Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds they brought to the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his charge.

29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceedingly much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

31 For he was wiser than all of man; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations round about.

32 And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.

33 And he spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.

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