1 Kings 4:7-19 ▼

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

8 These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of [the tribe of] Ephraim;

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

10 Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him belonged Socoh and all the land of Hepher);

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

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

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

14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

15 Ahimaaz, in [the tribe of] Naphtali (he also married Basemath, Solomon’s daughter);

16 Baana the son of Hushai, in [the tribe of] Asher and Bealoth;

17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in [the tribe of] Issachar;

18 Shimei the son of Ela, in [the tribe of] 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 officer who was in the land.