1 Kings 4:3-12

3Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha, were scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder [of important events];

4Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

5Azariah the son of Nathan was in charge of the deputies; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and was the king’s friend [and trusted advisor];

6Ahishar was in charge of the household (palace); and Adoniram the son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.

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

8These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of [the tribe of] Ephraim;

9Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elon-beth-hanan;

10Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him belonged Socoh and all the land of Hepher);

11Ben-abinadab, in all the hills of Dor (Taphath, Solomon’s daughter, was his wife);

12Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach, Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah as far as beyond Jokmeam;