1 Kin 3:25 The king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other."
1 Kin 3:26 Then the woman whose child was the living one spoke to the king, for she was deeply stirred over her son and said, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill him." But the other said, "He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him!"
1 Kin 3:27 Then the king said, "Give the first woman the living child, and by no means kill him. She is his mother."
1 Kin 3:28 When all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had handed down, they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.
1 Kin 4:1 Now King Solomon was king over all Israel.
1 Kin 4:3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;
1 Kin 4:4 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
1 Kin 4:5 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the deputies; and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, was the king's friend;
1 Kin 4:7 ¶ Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, who provided for the king and his household; each man had to provide for a month in the year.
1 Kin 4:9 Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;
1 Kin 4:10 Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh was his and all the land of Hepher);
1 Kin 4:11 Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);
1 Kin 4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah as far as the other side of Jokmeam;
1 Kin 4:13 Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead were his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);
1 Kin 4:14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
1 Kin 4:15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon);
1 Kin 4:16 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
1 Kin 4:19 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only deputy who was in the land.
1 Kin 4:20 ¶ Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance; they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.
1 Kin 4:21 ¶ Now Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.