25. During Solomon’s lifetime Judah and Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, lived in safety, everyone under their own vine and under their own fig tree.
26. Solomon had four thousand stalls for chariot horses, and twelve thousand horses.
27. The district governors, each in his month, supplied provisions for King Solomon and all who came to the king’s table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.
28. They also brought to the proper place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and the other horses.
29. God gave Solomon wisdom and very great insight, and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand on the seashore.
30. Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East, and greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.