1Le roi Salomon régnait sur tout Israël*.2Voici les ministres qui l’assistaient: Azaria, petit-fils du prêtre Tsadoq*,3Elihoreph et Ahiya, fils de Shisha, étaient ses secrétaires; Josaphat, fils d’Ahiloud, était archiviste*.4Benaya, fils de Yehoyada, était le général en chef de l’armée, Tsadoq et Abiatar étaient prêtres;5Azaria, fils de Nathan, était chef des gouverneurs; Zaboud, fils de Nathan, était prêtre et conseiller personnel du roi;6Ahishar était l’intendant du palais royal et Adoniram, fils d’Abda, était préposé à la surveillance des corvées.
Les douze provinces et leurs gouverneurs
7Salomon nomma douze gouverneurs sur tout Israël. Ils étaient chargés de pourvoir à l’entretien du roi et de tout le personnel de son palais. Chacun d’eux assurait le ravitaillement un mois par an.8Voici leurs noms: Ben-Hour exerçait sa fonction dans la région montagneuse d’Ephraïm*.9Ben-Déqer dans la région de Maqats, à Shaalbim, à Beth-Shémesh, à Elôn et à Beth-Hanân.10Ben-Hésed à Aroubboth dont relevaient aussi Soko et tout le pays de Hépher.11Ben-Abinadab dans toute la contrée de Dor. Il avait épousé Taphath, une fille de Salomon.12Baana, fils d’Ahiloud, gouvernait Taanak et Meguiddo* et toute la région de Beth-Sheân qui est près de Tsartân au-dessous de Jizréel, depuis Beth-Sheân jusqu’à Abel-Mehola et jusqu’au-delà de Yoqmeam.13Ben-Guéber résidait à Ramoth en Galaad; il était responsable de la région des villages de Yaïr, fils de Manassé, en Galaad, et de la contrée d’Argob en Basan qui comprenait soixante grandes villes fortifiées, munies de remparts et fermées par des barres de bronze.14Ahinadab, fils d’Iddo, supervisait la région de Mahanaïm.15Ahimaats, celle de Nephtali. Lui aussi avait épousé une fille de Salomon nommée Basmath.16Baana, fils de Houshaï, était responsable en Aser et à Bealoth;17Josaphat, fils de Parouah, en Issacar;18Shimeï, fils d’Ela, en Benjamin;19Guéber, fils d’Ouri, dans la province de Galaad; il gouvernait la contrée qui avait appartenu à Sihôn, roi des Amoréens, et à Og, roi du Basan*. Il y avait, de plus, un gouverneur qui supervisait tout le pays*.20La population de Juda et d’Israël était alors aussi nombreuse que les grains de sable au bord de la mer. Ils avaient à manger et à boire et ils étaient dans la joie.
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Solomon’s Officials
1King Solomon was king over all Israel,2and these were his high officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest;3Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;4Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;5Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and king’s friend;6Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram the son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.7Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for one month in the year.8These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;9Ben-deker, in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elonbeth-hanan;10Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him belonged Socoh and all the land of Hepher);11Ben-abinadab, in all Naphath-dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);12Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach, Megiddo, and all Beth-shean that is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, and from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the other side of Jokmeam;13Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (he had the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);14Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;15Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he had taken Basemath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);16Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;17Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;18Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;19Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. And there was one governor who was over the land.
Solomon’s Wealth and Wisdom
20Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy.21* Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates* to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.22Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors* of fine flour and sixty cors of meal,23ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.24For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphrates* from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphrates. And he had peace on all sides around him.25And Judah and Israel lived in safety, from Dan even to Beersheba, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, all the days of Solomon.26Solomon also had 40,000* stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.27And those officers supplied provisions for King Solomon, and for all who came to King Solomon’s table, each one in his month. They let nothing be lacking.28Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds they brought to the place where it was required, each according to his duty.29And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore,30so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.31For he was wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.32He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005.33He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall. He spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish.34And people of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
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