1 Kings 4
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1 Kings 4:2-19

2And these were his officials: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

3Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;

4Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, over the army; Zadok and Abiathar, the priests;

5Azariah the son of Nathan, over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest and the king’s friend;

6Ahishar, over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda, over the labor force.

7And Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household; each one made provision for one month of the year.

8These are their names: Ben-Hur, in the mountains of Ephraim;

9Ben-Deker, in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;

10Ben-Hesed, in Arubboth; to him belonged Sochoh and all the land of Hepher;

11Ben-Abinadab, in all the regions of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife;

12Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach, Megiddo, and all Beth Shean, which is beside Zaretan below Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as the other side of Jokneam;

13Ben-Geber, in Ramoth Gilead; to him belonged the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, in Gilead; to him also belonged the region of Argob in Bashan—sixty large cities with walls and bronze gate-bars;

14Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

15Ahimaaz, in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife;

16Baanah the son of Hushai, in Asher and Aloth;

17Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

18Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin;

19Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan. He was the only governor who was in the land.

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