The Twelve District Officers

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Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food 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 belonged 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 belonged the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him belonged the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze 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.

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