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Solomon’s Officials

So King Solomon was king over all Israel. These were his officials:

Azariah the son of Zadok was (A)the priest;
Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were scribes;
(B)Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;
and (C)Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army;
and Zadok and (D)Abiathar were priests;
and Azariah the son of Nathan was over (E)the deputies;
and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, was the king’s friend;
and Ahishar was over the household;
and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.

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. These are their names:

Ben-hur, in the (F)hill country of Ephraim;
Ben-deker in Makaz and (G)Shaalbim and (H)Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;
10 Ben-hesed, in Arubboth ((I)Socoh was his and all the land of (J)Hepher);
11 Ben-abinadab, in all [a]the (K)height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);
12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in (L)Taanach and Megiddo, and all (M)Beth-shean which is beside (N)Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to (O)Abel-meholah as far as the other side of (P)Jokmeam;
13 Ben-geber, in (Q)Ramoth-gilead (now [b](R)Havvoth-Jair—Jair being the son of Manasseh—which is in Gilead was his: (S)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 (T)Mahanaim;
15 (U)Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon);
16 Baana the son of (V)Hushai, in Asher and [c]Bealoth;
17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
18 (W)Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
19 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, (X)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.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 4:11 Or Naphoth-dor
  2. 1 Kings 4:13 Or the towns of Jair
  3. 1 Kings 4:16 Or in Aloth