1 Kings 4:8
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New International Version (©2011)
These are their names: Ben-Hur--in the hill country of Ephraim;

New Living Translation (©2007)
These are the names of the twelve governors: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim.

English Standard Version (©2001)
These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

International Standard Version (©2012)
Here's a list of their names: Ben-hur from the hill country of Ephraim;

NET Bible (©2006)
These were their names: Ben-Hur was in charge of the hill country of Ephraim.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Their names were [Benhur], who was in charge of the hills of Ephraim,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:

American King James Version
And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:

American Standard Version
And these are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And these are their names: Benhur, in mount Ephraim,

Darby Bible Translation
And these are their names: Ben-Hur, in mount Ephraim.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:

World English Bible
These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

Young's Literal Translation
and these are their names: Ben-Hur in the hill-country of Ephraim;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:1-19 In the choice of the great officers of Solomon's court, no doubt, his wisdom appeared. Several are the same that were in his father's time. A plan was settled by which no part of the country was exhausted to supply his court, though each sent its portion.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 8. And these are their names [the order is not geographical, nor do the districts correspond, except roughly, with the territories of the tribes. The order is probably that of the months for which they were severally responsible, and the districts were marked out according to the capabilities of the country.]: The son of Hur [Heb. as marg., Ben Hur. Of the twelve prefects, five are only known by their patronymics, for it is hardly likely that these are proper names, like Ben-hanan and Ben-zoheth (1 Chronicles 4:20). No satisfactory explanation of this curious circumstance has hitherto been given. The most probable is that in the document from which this list was compiled, the part of the page containing the missing names had been accidentally destroyed], in mount Ephraim. [See on 1 Kings 12:25. This district, which practically coincided with the territory of Ephraim, was one of the most fertile in Palestine. Hence, possibly, it stands first.]

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And these are their names,.... Or rather the names of their fathers; for of many of them not their own names but their fathers' names are given, as being well known:

the son of Hur, in Mount Ephraim; a fruitful country in the tribe of Ephraim, from whence this officer was to furnish the king with provisions for one month in the year.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

8. The son of Hur—or, as the Margin has it, Benhur, Bendekar. In the rural parts of Syria, and among the Arabs, it is still common to designate persons not by their own names, but as the sons of their fathers.

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Solomon's Twelve Officers
7And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision. 8And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: 9The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan: …

Joshua 24:33 And Eleazar son of Aaron died and was buried at Gibeah, which had been allotted to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.
1 Kings 4:7 Solomon had twelve district governors over all Israel, who supplied provisions for the king and the royal household. Each one had to provide supplies for one month in the year.