Solomon’s Power, Wealth, and Wisdom

^20 (A)Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the ^[a]seashore in abundance; they were eating, drinking, and rejoicing.

^21 [b](B)Now Solomon was ruling over all the kingdoms ^(C)from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt; ^(D)they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

²² Solomon’s ^[c]provision for one day was ^[d]thirty kors of fine flour and ^[e]sixty kors of meal, ²³ ten fat oxen, twenty ^[f]pasture-fed oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened geese. ²⁴ For he was ruling over everything ^[g]west of the Euphrates River, from Tiphsah even to ^(E)Gaza, ^(F)over all the kings ^[h]west of the River; and ^(G)he had peace on all sides surrounding him. ^25 (H)So Judah and Israel lived securely, everyone under his vine and his fig tree, ^(I)from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. ^26 (J)Solomon had ^[i]forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. ²⁷ And those deputies provided food for King Solomon and all who came to King Solomon’s table, each in his month; they allowed nothing to be lacking. ²⁸ They also brought barley and straw for the war horses and ^(K)baggage horses to the place where it was required, each deputy according to his duty.