6. Ahishar was over the palace, and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the forced labor.
7. Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, and they sustained the king and his palace, each one was to sustain for each month of the year.
8. These are their names: Ben-Hur was in the hill country of Ephraim.
9. Ben-Deker was in Makaz and in Shaalbim and in Beth-Shemesh and Elon of Beth-Hanan.
10. Ben-Hesed was in the Arubbot; Socoh and all the land of Hepher were his.
11. Ben-Abinadab was in all of Naphat of Dor; Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife.
12. Baanah the son of Ahilud was in Taanach and Megiddo and all Beth-Shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, of Beth-Shean up to Abel-Meholah up to the other side of Jokmeam.
13. Ben-Geber was in Ramoth-Gilead; the villages of Jair, the son of Manasseh which are in the Gilead were his, and the region of Argob which is in the Bashan, sixty great cities, with walls having crossbars of bronze, were his.
14. Ahinadab the son of Iddo was in Mahanaim.
15. Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he moreover also had taken Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife.
16. Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and Bealoth.
17. Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah was in Issachar.
18. Shimei the son of Ela was in Benjamin.
19. Geber the son of Uri was in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon, the king of the Amorites, and of Og, the king of Bashan; one governor which was over the land.
20. Judah and Israel were as many as the sand which is on the seashore in abundance, eating and drinking and rejoicing!
21. Now Solomon was ruling over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and up to the border of Egypt, who were bringing tribute and were serving Solomon all the days of his life.
22. The food of Solomon for one day was thirty dry measures of choice meal and sixty dry measures of flour;
23. ten stall-fed oxen and twenty pasture-fed oxen and a hundred sheep, besides deer and buck gazelles and roebucks and well-fed fowls.
24. For he was ruling over all the west of the River from Tiphsah up to Gaza, over all the kings west of the River; and he had peace from every side all around.