1 Kings 4:20-28

The Voice

²⁰ The people of Judah and Israel were innumerable, like the grains of sand on the beach. They ate and drank and celebrated.

²¹ Solomon reigned over all the countries from the Euphrates River to Philistia and to Egypt’s border. These countries honored Solomon with gifts and remained in Solomon’s service for his entire life. ²² Solomon’s provisions for his house for one day were just over 195 bushels of the best flour and about 391 bushels of meal, ²³ 10 fattened oxen, 20 pastured oxen, 100 sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened birds.

²⁴ Solomon reigned over all places and people and kings to the west of the Euphrates River, from Tiphsah all the way to Gaza on the Mediterranean. Solomon’s reign had peace on all sides: ²⁵ Judah and Israel lived in peace from Dan to Beersheba, with each man under his vine and beneath his fig tree, for Solomon’s entire life.

²⁶ Solomon owned 40,000^[a] horse stalls for the chariot horses, and he had 12,000 horsemen under his command. ²⁷ The 12 administrators made provisions for King Solomon and all who sat at King’s Solomon’s table. Each agent was responsible for one month out of the year, and not one of them ever did an insufficient job. ²⁸ They also provided barley and straw for the chariot horses and war horses in their specified stalls throughout the kingdom. Each agent fulfilled his responsibilities for his appointed month.