God's Word Translation

1 Kings 4:14-24 God's Word Translation (GW)

14. Ahinadab, son of Iddo, was in charge of Mahanaim.

15. Ahimaaz was in charge of Naphtali.(He also married Solomon’s daughter Basemath.)

16. Baana, son of Hushai, was in charge of Asher and Aloth.

17. Jehoshaphat, son of Paruah, was in charge of Issachar.

18. Shimei, son of Ela, was in charge of Benjamin.

19. Geber, son of Uri, was in charge of Gilead, the territory of King Sihon the Amorite and King Og of Bashan. (There was only one governor in that territory.)

20. The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They ate and drank and lived happily.

21. Solomon ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the country of the Philistines and as far as the Egyptian border. These kingdoms paid taxes and were subject to Solomon as long as he lived.

22. Solomon’s food supply for one day was 180 bushels of flour, 360 bushels of coarse flour,

23. 10 fattened cows, 20 cows from the pasture, and 100 sheep in addition to deer, gazelles, fallow deer, and fattened birds.

24. He controlled all the territory west of the Euphrates River from Tiphsah to Gaza and all of its kings. So he lived in peace with all the neighboring countries.