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King Solomon was king over all Israel.
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These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;
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Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;
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and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
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and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, [and] the king`s friend;
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and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.
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Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.
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These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;
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Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;
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Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him [pertained] Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);
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Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife);
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Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;
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Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (to him [pertained] the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; [even] to him [pertained] the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and brazen bars);
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Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
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Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);
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Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
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Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
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Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
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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.