18. Shimei, son of Ela, was in charge of Benjamin.
19. Geber, son of Uri, was in charge of Gilead, the territory of King Sihon the Amorite and King Og of Bashan. (There was only one governor in that territory.)
20. The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They ate and drank and lived happily.
21. Solomon ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the country of the Philistines and as far as the Egyptian border. These kingdoms paid taxes and were subject to Solomon as long as he lived.
22. Solomon’s food supply for one day was 180 bushels of flour, 360 bushels of coarse flour,
23. 10 fattened cows, 20 cows from the pasture, and 100 sheep in addition to deer, gazelles, fallow deer, and fattened birds.
24. He controlled all the territory west of the Euphrates River from Tiphsah to Gaza and all of its kings. So he lived in peace with all the neighboring countries.
25. As long as Solomon lived, Judah and Israel (from Dan to Beersheba) lived securely, everyone under his own vine and fig tree.
26. Solomon had stalls for 40,000 chariot horses. He also had 12,000 chariot soldiers.
27. Each of the governors provided food for one month every year for King Solomon and all who ate at his table. The governors saw to it that nothing was in short supply.
28. They brought their quota of barley and straw for the chariot horses to the proper places.
29. God gave Solomon wisdom—keen insight and a mind as limitless as the sand on the seashore.
30. Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the eastern people and all the wisdom of the Egyptians.