Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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Solomon's Officials
1 Solomon was king of all Israel,
2 and these were his high officials:
2 The priest: Azariah son of
Zadok
3 The court secretaries:
Elihoreph and Ahijah, sons
of Shisha
3 In charge of the records:
Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud
4 Commander of the army:
Benaiah son of Jehoiada
4 Priests: Zadok and Abiathar
5 Chief of the district governors:
Azariah son of Nathan
5 Royal Adviser: the priest
Zabud son of Nathan
6 In charge of the palace
servants: Ahishar
6 In charge of the forced labor:
Adoniram son of Abda
7 Solomon appointed twelve men
as district governors in Israel. They
were to provide food from their districts
for the king and his household,
each man being responsible for one
month out of the year.
8 The following
are the names of these twelve officers
and the districts they were in
charge of:
8 Benhur: the hill country of
Ephraim
9 Bendeker: the cities of Makaz,
Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh,
Elon, and Beth Hanan
10 Benhesed: the cities of
Arubboth and Socoh and
all the territory of Hepher
11 Benabinadab, who was
married to Solomon's
daughter Taphath: the
whole region of Dor
12 Baana son of Ahilud: the cities
of Taanach, Megiddo, and
all the region near Beth
Shean, near the town of
Zarethan, south of the
town of Jezreel, as far as
the city of Abel Meholah
and the city of Jokmeam
13 Bengeber: the city of Ramoth
in Gilead, and the villages
in Gilead belonging to the
clan of Jair, a descendant
of Manasseh, and the
region of Argob in Bashan,
sixty large towns in all,
fortified with walls and
with bronze bars on the
gates
14 Ahinadab son of Iddo: the
district of Mahanaim
15 Ahimaaz, who was married to
Basemath, another of
Solomon's daughters: the
territory of Naphtali
16 Baana son of Hushai: the
region of Asher and the
town of Bealoth
17 Jehoshaphat son of Paruah:
the territory of Issachar
18 Shimei son of Ela: the territory
of Benjamin
19 Geber son of Uri: the region of
Gilead, which had been
ruled by King Sihon of the
Amorites and King Og of
Bashan
19 Besides these twelve, there was
one governor over the whole land.
Solomon's Prosperous Reign
20 The people of Judah and Israel
were as numerous as the grains of
sand on the seashore; they ate and
-- --
drank, and were happy.
21 Solomon's
kingdom included all the nations
from the Euphrates River to Philistia
and the Egyptian border. They paid
him taxes and were subject to him
all his life. note
22 The supplies Solomon needed
each day were 150 bushels of fine
flour and 300 bushels of meal;
23 10
stall-fed cattle, 20 pasture-fed cattle,
and 100 sheep, besides deer, gazelles,
roebucks, and poultry.
24 Solomon ruled over all the land
west of the Euphrates River, from
Tiphsah on the Euphrates as far
west as the city of Gaza. All the
kings west of the Euphrates were
subject to him, and he was at peace
with all the neighboring countries.
25 As long as he lived, the people
throughout Judah and Israel lived in
safety, each family with its own
grapevines and fig trees.
26 Solomon had forty thousand
stalls for his chariot horses and
twelve thousand cavalry horses. note
27 His twelve governors, each one in
the month assigned to him, supplied
the food King Solomon needed for
himself and for all who ate in the
palace; they always supplied everything
needed.
28 Each governor also
supplied his share of barley and
straw, where it was needed, note for the
chariot horses and the work animals.
29 God gave Solomon unusual wisdom
and insight, and knowledge too
great to be measured.
30 Solomon
was wiser than the wise men of the
East or the wise men of Egypt.
31 He
was the wisest of all men: wiser than
Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol,
and Darda, the sons of Mahol,
and his fame spread throughout all
the neighboring countries. note
32 He
composed three thousand proverbs
and more than a thousand songs. note
33 He spoke of trees and plants, from
the Lebanon cedars to the hyssop
-- --
that grows on walls; he talked about
animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
34 Kings all over the world heard of
his wisdom and sent people to listen
to him.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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