Solomon & The Temple

Then the king answered, "Give the living child to the first woman, don't kill it, because she is its mother."

All Isra'el heard of the decision the king had made and held the king in awe, for they saw that God's wisdom was in him, enabling him to render justice properly.

King Shlomo was king over all Isra'el,

and these were his high officials: 'Azaryah the son of Tzadok, the cohen;

Elichoref and Achiyah the sons of Shisha, secretaries; Y'hoshafat the son of Achilud, secretary of state;

B'nayah the son of Y'hoyada, commander of the army; Tzadok and Evyatar, cohanim;

'Azaryah the son of Natan, chief administrator; Zavud the son of Natan, the king's trusted counselor;

Achishar, in charge of the palace; Adoniram the son of 'Avda, in charge of forced labor.

Shlomo had twelve officers over all Isra'el who were in charge of providing food and supplies for the king and his household; each one was in charge of provisions for one month out of the year.

They were: the son of Hur, in the hills of Efrayim;

the son of Deker, in Makatz, Sha'albim, Beit-Shemesh and Eilon-Beit-Hanan;

the son of Hesed, in Arubot; he also had charge of Sokhoh and all the territory of Hefer;

the son of Avinadav, in all the area of Dor; he had Tafat the daughter of Shlomo as his wife;

Ba'ana the son of Achilud, in Ta'anakh, Megiddo, and all Beit-Sh'an by Tzartan below Yizre'el, from Beit-Sh'an to Avel-M'cholah, as far as beyond Yokme'am;

the son of Gever, in Ramot-Gil'ad; he was in charge of the villages of Ya'ir the son of M'nasheh in Gil'ad and in charge of the region of Argov in Bashan, sixty large cities with walls and bronze bars;

Achinadav the son of 'Iddo, in Machanayim;

Achima'atz, in Naftali; he also took Basmat the daughter of Shlomo as his wife;

Ba'ana the son of Hushai, in Asher and in Alot;

Y'hoshafat the son of Paruach, in Yissakhar;

Shim'i the son of Ela, in Binyamin; and

Gever the son of Uri, in the land of Gil'ad, the country of Sichon king of the Emori and 'Og king of Bashan. Over all these, there was one administrator in the land.

Y'hudah and Isra'el were as numerous as sand grains on the seashore; they ate, drank and enjoyed themselves.

Shlomo ruled over all the kingdoms from the [Euphrates] River through the land of the P'lishtim to the border of Egypt; they paid tribute and served Shlomo as long as he lived.

Shlomo's provisions for one day consisted of 150 bushels of fine flour, 310 bushels of meal,

ten fattened oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen and one hundred sheep, in addition to deer, gazelles, roebucks and fattened poultry.