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1 Kings 4:1 - 4:19

Solomon’s Officials

So King Solomon was king over all Israel.
2 These were his officials:
Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest;
3
Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were scribes;
Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;
4
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army;
and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
5
and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the deputies;
and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, was the king’s friend;
6
and Ahishar was over the household;
and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.
7 Now Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, who sustained the king and his household; each man had to sustain them for a month in the year. 8 These are their names:
Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
9
Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;
10
Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh was his and all the land of Hepher);
11
Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);
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;
13
Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (now Havvoth-Jair—Jair being the son of Manasseh—which is in Gilead was his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);
14
Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
15
Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon);
16
Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
17
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
18
Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
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.