¹Salomo telah menjadi raja atas seluruh negeri Israel.

¹King Solomon was king over all Israel.

²Inilah pejabat-pejabat tinggi yang diangkat oleh Salomo: Imam-imam: Zadok, Azarya anak Zadok, Abyatar. Sekretaris negara: Elihoref dan Ahia, yaitu anak-anak Sisia. Bendahara negara: Yosafat anak Ahilud. Panglima angkatan bersenjata: Benaya, anak Yoyada. Pengawas para bupati: Azarya, anak Natan. Penasehat raja: Imam Zabud, anak Natan. Kepala rumah tangga istana: Ahisar. Kepala pekerja rodi: Adoniram, anak Abda.

²These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

³(4:2)

³Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;

⁴(4:2)

⁴and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

⁵(4:2)

⁵and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, the king’s friend;

⁶(4:2)

⁶and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.

⁷Salomo mengangkat dua belas bupati di seluruh negeri Israel. Tugas mereka ialah mengumpulkan dari wilayah mereka bahan makanan untuk raja dan seisi istananya. Setiap bupati secara bergilir bertanggung jawab atas hal itu selama satu bulan setiap tahun.

⁷Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

⁸Kedua belas bupati itu dikepalai oleh seorang gubernur. Inilah nama para bupati itu dan wilayah kekuasaan mereka: Ben-Hur: daerah pegunungan Efraim. Ben-Deker: kota Makas, Saalbim, Bet-Semes, Elon, Bet-Hanan. Ben-Hesed: kota Arubot, Sokho, dan seluruh daerah Hefer. Ben-Abinadab, suami Tafat putri Salomo: seluruh daerah Dor. Baana anak Ahilud: kota Taanakh, Megido, dan seluruh daerah dekat Bet-Sean, dekat kota Sartan di sebelah selatan kota Yizreel sampai sejauh kota Abel-Mehola dan kota Yokmeam. Ben-Geber: kota Ramot di Gilead, kampung-kampung di Gilead milik kaum Yair keturunan Manasye, daerah Argob di Basan; seluruhnya 60 kota besar yang diperkuat dengan benteng dan palang-palang perunggu pada gerbang-gerbangnya. Ahinadab anak Ido: daerah Mahanaim. Ahimaas, suami Basmat putri Salomo: daerah Naftali. Baana anak Husai: daerah Asyer, kota Alot. Yosafat anak Paruah: daerah Isakhar. Simei anak Ela: daerah Benyamin. Geber anak Uri: daerah Gilead, yang dahulu dikuasai Sihon raja Amori, dan Og raja Basan.

⁸These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

⁹(4:8)

⁹Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;

¹⁰(4:8)

¹⁰Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him belonged Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);

¹¹(4:8)

¹¹Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

¹²(4:8)

¹²Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;

¹³(4:8)

¹³Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (to him belonged the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him belonged the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);

¹⁴(4:8)

¹⁴Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

¹⁵(4:8)

¹⁵Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

¹⁶(4:8)

¹⁶Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

¹⁷(4:8)

¹⁷Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

¹⁸(4:8)

¹⁸Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

¹⁹(4:8)

¹⁹Geber 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 officer who was in the land.

²⁰Rakyat Yehuda dan Israel banyaknya seperti pasir di tepi laut. Mereka mempunyai cukup makanan dan minuman serta hidup senang.

²⁰Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

²¹Setiap keluarga mempunyai kebun anggur dan kebun ara. Seumur hidup Salomo rakyat di seluruh Yehuda dan Israel dari Dan sampai ke Bersyeba hidup aman dan tentram. Sebab, semua raja di sebelah barat Efrat takluk kepadanya, dan semua bangsa dari negara-negara di sekitar kerajaannya bersahabat dengan dia. Tanah di sebelah barat Sungai Efrat dari Tifsah di tepi Sungai Efrat terus ke barat ke kota Gaza di Filistin sampai ke perbatasan Mesir, seluruhnya dikuasai oleh Salomo. Bangsa-bangsa di negeri itu takluk kepadanya dan membayar upeti. Bahan-bahan makanan yang diperlukan oleh Salomo setiap hari adalah 5.000 liter tepung halus, 10.000 liter tepung kasar, 10 sapi kandang, 20 sapi padang, dan 100 domba. Selain itu, juga rusa, kijang, menjangan dan unggas.

²¹Solomon 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.

²²(4:21)

²²Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,

²³(4:21)

²³ten head of fat cattle, and twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.

²⁴(4:21)

²⁴For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him.

²⁵(4:21)

²⁵Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

²⁶Salomo mempunyai 12.000 tentara berkuda dan 40.000 kandang untuk kuda-kuda yang menarik kereta-keretanya.

²⁶Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

²⁷Secara bergilir, selama sebulan, setiap bupati menyerahkan bahan makanan untuk Raja Salomo dan untuk semua orang yang mendapat makanan dari istana, sehingga mereka tidak kekurangan sesuatu pun.

²⁷Those 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 lacking.

²⁸Setiap bupati itu memberikan juga gandum dan jerami untuk semua kuda Salomo, baik kuda tunggangan maupun kuda kereta. Makanan hewan itu dibawa ke kandang-kandang kuda sebanyak yang dibutuhkan.

²⁸Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they to the place where the officers were, every man according to his duty.

²⁹Allah memberikan kepada Salomo hikmat, dan pengetahuan yang luar biasa, serta pengertian yang amat dalam.

²⁹God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

³⁰Di negeri-negeri timur dan di Mesir tak ada orang yang lebih pandai dari dia.

³⁰Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

³¹Ia benar-benar terpandai dari semua orang. Ia melebihi Etan orang Ezrahi, Heman, Kalkol dan Darda anak-anak Mahol. Nama Salomo terkenal di mana-mana di negeri-negeri sekeliling kerajaannya.

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 all around.

³²Ada 3.000 pepatah dan lebih dari seribu nyanyian yang dikarangnya.

³²He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five.

³³Ia sanggup berbicara tentang pohon-pohon dan tanaman-tanaman--dari pohon cemara Libanon sampai kepada rerumput hisop yang tumbuh pada dinding-dinding batu. Ia berbicara juga mengenai binatang-binatang, seperti misalnya unggas, binatang melata dan ikan.

³³He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.

³⁴Raja-raja di seluruh dunia mendengar tentang kepandaian Salomo sehingga mereka mengutus orang kepadanya untuk mendengarkan dia.

³⁴There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.