3. Elihoreph and Ahijah, sons of Shisha, had the job of writing notes about what happened in the courts; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud wrote notes about the history of the people;
4. Benaiah son of Jehoiada was the commander of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
5. Azariah son of Nathan was in charge of the district governors; Zabud son of Nathan was a priest and an advisor to King Solomon;
6. Ahishar was responsible for everything in the king’s palace; Adoniram son of Abda was in charge of the slaves.
7. Israel was divided into twelve districts. Solomon chose governors to rule over each district. These governors were ordered to gather food from their districts and give it to the king and his family. Each of the twelve governors was responsible for giving food to the king one month each year.
8. These are the names of the twelve governors: Ben Hur was governor of the hill country of Ephraim.
9. Ben Deker was governor of Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Bethhanan.
22-23. This is the amount of food that Solomon needed each day for himself and for everyone who ate at his table: 150 bushels of fine flour, 300 bushels of flour, 10 cattle that were fed grain, 20 cattle that were raised in the fields, 100 sheep, wild animals such as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and game birds.
24. Solomon ruled over all the countries west of the Euphrates River, from Tiphsah to Gaza. And Solomon had peace along all the borders of his kingdom.
25. During Solomon’s life everyone in Judah and Israel, all the way from Dan to Beersheba, lived in peace and security. The people were at peace sitting under their own fig trees and grapevines.
26. Solomon had places to keep 4000 horses for his chariots and he had 12,000 horse soldiers.
27. And each month one of the twelve district governors gave King Solomon everything he needed for all the people who ate at the king’s table.
28. The district governors also gave the king enough straw and barley for the chariot horses and the riding horses. Everyone brought this grain to the necessary places.