1So herrschte also Salomo als König über ganz Israel;2und dies waren seine Fürsten[1]: Asarja, der Sohn Zadoks, war (Hoher-) Priester;3Elihoreph und Ahija, die Söhne Sisas, waren Staatsschreiber; Josaphat, der Sohn Ahiluds, war Kanzler;4Benaja, der Sohn Jojadas, war oberster Heerführer; [Zadok und Abjathar waren Priester;]5Asarja, der Sohn Nathans, war über die Vögte gesetzt; Sabud, der Sohn Nathans, war der priesterliche Freund[2] des Königs;6Ahisar war Palastoberster, und Adoniram, der Sohn Addas, hatte die Oberaufsicht über die Fronarbeiten.7Salomo hatte zwölf Vögte, die über ganz Israel gesetzt waren und den König und seinen Hof zu versorgen hatten, und zwar oblag jedem von ihnen die Versorgung einen Monat lang im Jahre.8Folgendes sind ihre Namen: Der Sohn Hurs, im Gebirge Ephraim;9der Sohn Dekers in Makaz; (ihm unterstand) Saalbim, Beth-Semes und Elon bis Beth-Hanan;10der Sohn Heseds in Arubboth; ihm war Socho und die ganze Landschaft Hepher überwiesen;11der Sohn Abinadabs, der das ganze Hügelland von Dor unter sich hatte; er war mit Salomos Tochter Taphath verheiratet worden;12Baana, der Sohn Ahiluds, in Thaanach, Megiddo und ganz Beth-Sean, das neben Zarthan liegt unterhalb Jesreels, von Beth-Sean bis nach Abel-Mehola, bis über Jokmeam hinaus;13der Sohn Gebers zu Ramoth in Gilead, dem die Zeltdörfer Jairs, des Sohnes Manasses, die in Gilead liegen, überwiesen waren; dazu gehörte auch der Landstrich Argob in Basan, sechzig große Städte mit Mauern und ehernen Riegeln;14Ahinadab, der Sohn Iddos, in Mahanaim;15Ahimaaz in Naphthali; auch er war mit einer Tochter Salomos, mit Basmath, verheiratet;16Baana, der Sohn Husais, in Asser und Bealoth;17Josaphat, der Sohn Pharuahs, in Issaschar;18Simei, der Sohn Elas, in Benjamin;19Geber, der Sohn Uris, im Lande Gilead, dem Lande Sihons, des Königs der Amoriter, und Ogs, des Königs von Basan; außerdem war noch ein Vogt[3] über alle Vögte im Lande eingesetzt. –20(Die Bewohner von) Juda und Israel waren so zahlreich wie der Sand am Meer an Menge; sie aßen und tranken und waren guter Dinge.
1King Solomon was king over all Israel,2and these were his high officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest; (1Chr 6,10)3Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; (2Sam 8,16; 2Sam 20,24)4Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests; (2Sam 20,25; 1Kön 2,27; 1Kön 2,35)5Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and king’s friend; (2Sam 15,37; 2Sam 16,16; 1Kön 4,7; 1Chr 27,33)6Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram the son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor. (2Sam 20,24; 1Kön 5,14; 1Kön 9,15; 1Kön 12,18; 2Chr 10,18)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; (Jos 24,33)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); (Jos 11,2)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; (Jos 17,11)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); (4Mo 32,41; 5Mo 3,4; 1Kön 22,3)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; (1Kön 1,8)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. (5Mo 3,8)
Solomon’s Wealth and Wisdom
20Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy. (1Mo 22,17; 1Kön 3,8; 2Chr 1,9)21[1] Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates[2] to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life. (1Mo 15,18; 2Mo 23,31; Jos 1,4; 2Chr 9,26; Ps 68,29; Ps 72,8; Ps 72,10)22Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors[3] 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[4] from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphrates. And he had peace on all sides around him. (1Mo 10,19; 1Chr 22,9)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. (2Sam 3,10; 2Kön 18,31; Jes 36,16; Jer 23,6; Jer 32,37; Hes 28,26; Mi 4,4; Sach 3,10)26Solomon also had 40,000[5] stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen. (1Kön 10,26; 2Chr 1,14; 2Chr 9,25)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. (Est 8,10; Est 8,14; Mi 1,13)29And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore, (1Kön 3,12; 1Kön 4,20)30so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt. (Ri 6,3; Jes 19,11; Apg 7,22)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. (1Kön 4,29)32He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005. (Spr 1,1; Pred 12,9; Hl 1,1)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. (1Kön 10,1; 2Chr 9,23)