1 Kings 4
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1 Kings 4:3-12

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

4and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

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

6and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy.

7And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year:

8And these are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim:

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

10Ben-hesed, in Arubboth; to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher:

11Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:

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

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