004:014 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; 004:015 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife); 004:016 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; 004:017 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; 004:018 Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; 004:019 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 who was in the land. 004:020 Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. 004:021 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. 004:022 Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal, 004:023 ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl. 004:024 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. 004:025 Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. 004:026 Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. 004:027 Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking. 004:028 Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they to the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his charge. 004:029 God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore. 004:030 Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. 004:031 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations round about. 004:032 He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five. 004:033 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 animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish. 004:034 There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom. 005:001 Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David. 005:002 Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,