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 4:2 These were his officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest;
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 4:6 and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.
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 4:8 These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
1 Kin 4:9 Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;
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 4:17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;