1 Kings 4:7

4:7 Solomon had twelve district governors appointed throughout Israel who acquired supplies for the king and his palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year.

1 Kings 4:22-23

4:22 Each day Solomon’s royal court consumed ¹  thirty cors ²  of finely milled flour, sixty cors of cereal, 4:23 ten calves fattened in the stall, ³  twenty calves from the pasture, and a hundred sheep, not to mention rams, gazelles, deer, and well-fed birds.

1 Kings 4:27-28

4:27 The district governors acquired supplies for King Solomon and all who ate in his royal palace. ⁴  Each was responsible for one month in the year; they made sure nothing was lacking. 4:28 Each one also brought to the assigned location his quota of barley and straw for the various horses. ⁵ 

1 Kings 4:2

4:2 These were his officials:

Azariah son of Zadok was the priest.

1 Kings 1:28-29

David Picks Solomon as His Successor

1:28 King David responded, ⁶  “Summon Bathsheba!” ⁷  She came and stood before the king. ⁸  1:29 The king swore an oath: “As certainly as the Lord lives (he who has rescued me ⁹  from every danger),

¹ tn Heb “the food of Solomon for each day was.”

² tn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

³ tn The words “in the stall” are added for clarification; note the immediately following reference to cattle from the pasture.

⁴ tn Heb “everyone who drew near to the table of King Solomon.”

⁵ tn Heb “barley and straw for the horses and the steeds they brought to the place which was there, each according to his measure.”

⁶ tn Heb “answered and said.”

⁷ sn Summon Bathsheba. Bathsheba must have left the room when Nathan arrived (see 1:22).

⁸ tn Heb “she came before the king and stood before the king.”

⁹ tn Or “ransomed my life.”