1 Kings 4:2–19

²and these were his high officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was ^bthe priest; ³Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; ^cJehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; ^4dBenaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; ^eZadok and Abiathar were priests; ⁵Azariah the son of Nathan was over ^fthe officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and ^gking’s friend; ⁶Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and ^hAdoniram the son of Abda was in charge of ⁱthe forced labor.

⁷Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for one month in the year. ⁸These were their names: Ben-hur, in ^jthe hill country of Ephraim; ⁹Ben-deker, in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elonbeth-hanan; ¹⁰Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him belonged Socoh and all the land of Hepher); ¹¹Ben-abinadab, in all ^kNaphath-dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as his wife); ¹²Baana the son of Ahilud, in ^lTaanach, Megiddo, and all ^lBeth-shean that is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, and from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the other side of Jokmeam; ¹³Ben-geber, ^min Ramoth-gilead (he had ⁿthe villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and he had ^othe region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars); ¹⁴Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; ¹⁵Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he had taken Basemath the daughter of Solomon as his wife); ¹⁶Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; ¹⁷Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; ^18pShimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; ¹⁹Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, ^qthe country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. And there was one governor who was over the land.