1 Kings 4
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1 Kings 4:3-12

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

4Benaiah son of Jehoiada, in charge of the army; Zadok and Abiathar, kohanim;

5Azariah son of Nathan, in charge of the officers; Zabud son of Nathan the kohen, the king’s personal attendant;

6Ahishar, in charge of the household; Adoniram son of Abda in charge of the forced labor.

7Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household; each had to make provision for a month in the year.

8These were their names: Ben-Hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;

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

10Ben-Hesed, in Arubboth (his were Socoh and all the land of Hehper);

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

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

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