1 Kings 4:21–34

²¹And Solomon ruled over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life. ²²And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal, ²³ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl. ²⁴For he had dominion over all on this side the river, from Tiphsah as far as Gazah, over all the kings on this side the river; and he had peace on all sides round about. ²⁵And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon. ²⁶And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. ²⁷And those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon’s table, every man in his month: they let nothing be wanting. ²⁸And the barley, and the straw for the horses and coursers, they brought to the place where the superintendents were, every man according to his charge.

²⁹And God gave Solomon wisdom and very great understanding and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore. ³⁰And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. ³¹For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations round about. ³²And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five. ³³And he spoke of the trees, from the cedar-tree that is on Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of cattle, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes. ³⁴And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.