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And King Solomon was king over all Israel.

And these were the rulers he had: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest.

Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, were the 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 the minister and friend of the king.

And Ahishar was over the household. And Adoniram the son of Abda was over the forced labor.

And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel. And they sustained the king and his household. Each man had one month in the year to provide.

And these are their names: Ben-hur in the hills of Ephraim;

the son of Dekar in Makaz and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;

the son of Hesed, in Aruboth (to him was Sochoh and all the land of Hepher);

the son of Abinadab in all the height of Dor, Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife;

Baana the son of Ahilud to whom was Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean (which is by Zartanah below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, to the place that is beyond Jokneam);

the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead (to him were the towns of Jair, Manasseh's son, which are in Gilead; and to him was the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);

Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim;

Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon for a wife;

Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth;

Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah was in Issachar;

Shimei the son of Elah was in Benjamin;

Geber the son of Uri was in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan; and there was one officer who was in the land;