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Now King Solomon was king over all Israel.

These were his officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was ^(C1)the priest;

Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were scribes; ^(C1)Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the secretary;

and ^(C1)Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and ^(C2)Abiathar were priests;

and Azariah the son of Nathan was over ^(C1)the deputies; and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, was the king's confidant;

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

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.

And these were their names: Ben-hur, in the ^(C1)hill country of Ephraim;

Ben-deker in Makaz and ^(C1)Shaalbim, and ^(C2)Beth-shemesh, and Elonbeth-hanan;

Ben-hesed in Arubboth (^(C1)Socoh was his and all the land of ^(C2)Hepher);

Ben-abinadab in all ^(F1)the ^(C1)hills of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);

Baana the son of Ahilud in ^(C1)Taanach and Megiddo, and all ^(C2)Beth-shean which is beside ^(C3)Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to ^(C4)Abel-meholah as far as the other side of ^(C5)Jokmeam;

Ben-geber in ^(C1)Ramoth-gilead (^(C2)the villages of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead were his: ^(C3)the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);

Ahinadab the son of Iddo in ^(C1)Mahanaim;

^(C1)Ahimaaz in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon);

Baana the son of ^(C1)Hushai in Asher and ^(F1)Bealoth;

Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah in Issachar;

^(C1)Shimei the son of Ela in Benjamin;

Geber the son of Uri in the land of Gilead, ^(C1)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.