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1 Kings - ch 4 v 1 - 20
- King Solomon was king over all Israel.
- These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;
- Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;
- and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
- and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, and the king's friend;
- and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.
- Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.
- These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
- Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;
- Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);
- Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife);
- Baana 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;
- Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; even to him pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
- Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
- Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);
- Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
- Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
- Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
- Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land.
- Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
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