1 Kings 4:1-19 — Legacy Standard Bible

Solomon’s Officials

4So King Solomon was king over all Israel. ²These were his officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was ^athe priest;

³Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were scribes; ^aJehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder; ⁴and ^aBenaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and ^bAbiathar were priests; ⁵and Azariah the son of Nathan was over ^athe deputies; and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, was the king’s friend; ⁶and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.

⁷Now 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. ⁸These are their names: Ben-hur, in the ^ahill country of Ephraim;

⁹Ben-deker in Makaz and ^aShaalbim and ^bBeth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan; ¹⁰Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (^aSocoh was his and all the land of ^bHepher); ¹¹Ben-abinadab, in all ¹the ^aheight of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife); ¹²Baana the son of Ahilud, in ^aTaanach and Megiddo, and all ^bBeth-shean which is beside ^cZarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to ^dAbel-meholah as far as the other side of ^eJokmeam; ¹³Ben-geber, in ^aRamoth-gilead (now ¹^,^bHavvoth-Jair—Jair being the son of Manasseh—which is in Gilead was his: ^cthe region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his); ¹⁴Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in ^aMahanaim; ¹⁵^aAhimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon); ¹⁶Baana the son of ^aHushai, in Asher and ¹Bealoth; ¹⁷Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; ¹⁸^aShimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; ¹⁹Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, ^athe country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only deputy who was in the land.