1 And king Solomon was king over all Israel. {S}2 And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest; {S}3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; {S} Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder; {S}4 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; {S} and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; {S}5 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; {S} and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister and the king's friend; {S}6 and Ahishar was over the household; {S} and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy. {S}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. {S}8 And these are their names: The son of Hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim; {S}9 the son of Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan; {S}10 the son of Hesed, in Arubboth; to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher; {S}11 the son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife; {S}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; {S}13 the son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the villages 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 brazen bars; {S}14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; {S}15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon to wife; {S}16 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; {S}17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; {S}18 Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; {S}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 one officer that was [over all the officers] 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.