1 Kings 4:1-21 ▼

1 Now King Solomon was king over all Israel.

2 These were his officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest;

3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the secretary;

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

5 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the deputies; and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, was the king’s confidant;

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

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

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

9 Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elonbeth-hanan;

10 Ben-hesed in Arubboth (Socoh was his and all the land of Hepher);

11 Ben-abinadab in all the hills of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);

12 Baana the 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 the other side of Jokmeam;

13 Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead were his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);

14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo in Mahanaim;

15 Ahimaaz in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon);

16 Baana the son of Hushai in Asher and Bealoth;

17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah in Issachar;

18 Shimei the son of Ela in Benjamin;

19 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 deputy who was in the land.

20 Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance; they were eating, drinking, and rejoicing.

21 Now Solomon was ruling over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.