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1 Kings 4

  1. 1And king Solomon was king over all Israel.
  2. 2And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;
  3. 3Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;
  4. 4and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
  5. 5and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister and the king's friend;
  6. 6and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy.
  7. 7And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.
  8. 8And these are their names: The son of Hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;
  9. 9the son of Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;
  10. 10the son of Hesed, in Arubboth; to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher;
  11. 11the son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife;
  12. 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;
  13. 13the son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; even to him pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars;
  14. 14Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
  15. 15Ahimaaz, in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon to wife;
  16. 16Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
  17. 17Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
  18. 18Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
  19. 19Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and one officer that was over all the officers in the land.
  20. 20Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

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