Bible Verses About Civil Officer

Pick for yourselves from each of your tribes men who are wise, understanding and knowledgeable; and I will make them heads over you.'

"You answered me, 'What you have said would be a good thing for us to do.'

So I took the heads of your tribes, men wise and knowledgable, and made them heads over you - leaders in charge of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens, and officers, tribe by tribe.

At that time I commissioned your judges, 'Hear the cases that arise between your brothers; and judge fairly between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is with him.

Yo'av the son of Tz'ruyah was commander of the army, Y'hoshafat the son of Achilud was chief adviser,

Tzadok the son of Achituv and Achimelekh the son of Evyatar were cohanim, S'rayah was secretary,

B'nayahu the son of Y'hoyada was in charge of the K'reti and P'leti [serving as the king's bodyguards], and David's sons were cohanim.

Once again Yo'av was commander over the whole army of Isra'el, while B'nayah the son of Y'hoyada was over the K'reti and P'leti,

Adoram was in charge of forced labor, Y'hoshafat the son of Achilud was secretary of state,

Sh'va was recorder, Tzadok and Evyatar were cohanim,

and 'Ira the Ya'iri was David's cohen.

King Shlomo was king over all Isra'el,

and these were his high officials: 'Azaryah the son of Tzadok, the cohen;

Elichoref and Achiyah the sons of Shisha, secretaries; Y'hoshafat the son of Achilud, secretary of state;

B'nayah the son of Y'hoyada, commander of the army; Tzadok and Evyatar, cohanim;

'Azaryah the son of Natan, chief administrator; Zavud the son of Natan, the king's trusted counselor;

Achishar, in charge of the palace; Adoniram the son of 'Avda, in charge of forced labor.

Shlomo had twelve officers over all Isra'el who were in charge of providing food and supplies for the king and his household; each one was in charge of provisions for one month out of the year.

They were: the son of Hur, in the hills of Efrayim;

the son of Deker, in Makatz, Sha'albim, Beit-Shemesh and Eilon-Beit-Hanan;

the son of Hesed, in Arubot; he also had charge of Sokhoh and all the territory of Hefer;

the son of Avinadav, in all the area of Dor; he had Tafat the daughter of Shlomo as his wife;

Ba'ana the son of Achilud, in Ta'anakh, Megiddo, and all Beit-Sh'an by Tzartan below Yizre'el, from Beit-Sh'an to Avel-M'cholah, as far as beyond Yokme'am;

the son of Gever, in Ramot-Gil'ad; he was in charge of the villages of Ya'ir the son of M'nasheh in Gil'ad and in charge of the region of Argov in Bashan, sixty large cities with walls and bronze bars;

Achinadav the son of 'Iddo, in Machanayim;