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Now King Solomon was king over all Israel.

These were his officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was ^(a)the priest;

Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were secretaries; ^(b)Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;

and ^(c)Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and ^(d)Abiathar were priests;

and Azariah the son of Nathan was over ^(e)the deputies; and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, was the king's friend;

and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.

Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, who ^[a]provided for the king and his household; each man had to ^[b]provide for a month in the year.

These are their names: Ben-hur, in the ^(f)hill country of Ephraim;

Ben-deker in Makaz and ^(g)Shaalbim and ^(h)Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;

Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (⁽ⁱ⁾Socoh was his and all the land of ^(j)Hepher);

Ben-abinadab, in all ^[c]the ^(k)height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);

Baana the son of Ahilud, in ^(l)Taanach and Megiddo, and all ^(m)Beth-shean which is beside ⁽ⁿ⁾Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to ^(o)Abel-meholah as far as the other side of ^(p)Jokmeam;

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

Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in ^(t)Mahanaim;

^(u)Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon);

Baana the son of ^(v)Hushai, in Asher and ^[d]Bealoth;

Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

^(w)Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, ^(x)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.