¹¹ And he said, “^(A)This will be the ^[a]practice of the king who will reign over you: ^(B)he will take your sons and put them in his chariots for himself and among his horsemen, and ^(C)they will run before his chariots. ^12 (D)He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to ^[b]do his plowing and to gather in his harvest, and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. ¹³ He will also take your daughters and use them as perfumers, cooks, and bakers. ^14 (E)He will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants. ¹⁵ And he will take a tenth of your seed and your vineyards and give it to his high officials and his servants. ¹⁶ He will also take your male servants and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and ^[c]use them for his work. ¹⁷ He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his servants. ¹⁸ Then ^(F)you will cry out on that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but ^(G)the Lord will not answer you on that day.”

⁷ Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household; each deputy had to provide food for a month in the year.

^21 [a](A)Now Solomon was ruling over all the kingdoms ^(B)from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt; ^(C)they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

²² Solomon’s ^[b]provision for one day was ^[c]thirty kors of fine flour and ^[d]sixty kors of meal, ²³ ten fat oxen, twenty ^[e]pasture-fed oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened geese. ²⁴ For he was ruling over everything ^[f]west of the Euphrates River, from Tiphsah even to ^(D)Gaza, ^(E)over all the kings ^[g]west of the River; and ^(F)he had peace on all sides surrounding him. ^25 (G)So Judah and Israel lived securely, everyone under his vine and his fig tree, ^(H)from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

¹⁵ Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon ^(A)conscripted to build the house of the Lord, his own house, the ^[a](B)Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, ^(C)Hazor, ^(D)Megiddo, and ^(E)Gezer.