1Sa 8:11-12, 1Ki 4:1-27, 2Ch 8:9-10 | ESV | STEP | He said , These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots .

1 Samuel 8:11-12

11 He said, ^a“These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: ^bhe will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots. 12 And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some ^cto plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.

1 Kings 4:1-27

Solomon’s Officials

1 King Solomon was king over all Israel, 2 and these were his high officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was ^dthe priest; 3 Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; ^eJehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; 4 ^fBenaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; ^gZadok and Abiathar were priests; 5 Azariah the son of Nathan was over ^hthe officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and ⁱking’s friend; 6 Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and ^jAdoniram the son of Abda was in charge of ^kthe forced labor.

7 Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for one month in the year. 8 These were their names: Ben-hur, in ^lthe hill country of Ephraim; 9 Ben-deker, in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elonbeth-hanan; 10 Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him belonged Socoh and all the land of Hepher); 11 Ben-abinadab, in all ^mNaphath-dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as his wife); 12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in ⁿTaanach, Megiddo, and all ^oBeth-shean that is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, and from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the other side of Jokmeam; 13 Ben-geber, ^pin Ramoth-gilead (he had ^qthe villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and he had ^rthe region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars); 14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; 15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he had taken Basemath the daughter of Solomon as his wife); 16 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; 17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; 18 ^sShimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; 19 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, ^tthe country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. And there was one governor who was over the land.

Solomon’s Wealth and Wisdom

20 Judah and Israel were as many ^uas the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy. 21 ^{▼▼Ch 5:1 in Hebrew} ^wSolomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the ^xEuphrates ^{▼▼Hebrew the River} to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. ^zThey brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

22 Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors ^{▼▼A cor was about 6 bushels or 220 liters} of fine flour and sixty cors of meal, 23 ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl. 24 For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphrates ^{▼▼Hebrew the River; twice in this verse} from Tiphsah to ^acGaza, over all the kings west of the Euphrates. ^adAnd he had peace on all sides around him. 25 And Judah and Israel ^aelived in safety, ^affrom Dan even to Beersheba, ^agevery man under his vine and under his fig tree, all the days of Solomon. 26 ^ahSolomon also had 40,000 ^{▼▼Hebrew; one Hebrew manuscript (see 2 Chron. 9:25 and Septuagint of 1 Kings 10:26) 4,000} stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen. 27 And those officers supplied provisions for King Solomon, and for all who came to King Solomon’s table, each one in his month. They let nothing be lacking.

2 Chronicles 8:9-10

9 But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves for his work; they were soldiers, and his officers, the commanders of his chariots, and his horsemen. 10 And these were the chief officers of King Solomon, 250, who exercised authority over the people.