Solomon’s Twelve Officers

7 Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year, 8 and these were their names:

• Ben-hur in the hill country of Ephraim;


• 9 Ben-deker in Makaz, in Shaalbim, in Beth-shemesh, and in Elon-beth-hanan;


• 10 Ben-hesed in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);


• 11 Ben-abinadab in Naphath-dor [fn] (Taphath, a daughter of Solomon, was his wife);


• 12 Baana son of Ahilud in Taanach, in Megiddo, and in all of Beth-shean next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah and on past Jokmeam;


• 13 Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);


• 14 Ahinadab son of Iddo in Mahanaim;


• 15 Ahimaaz in Naphtali (he had married Basemath, a daughter of Solomon);


• 16 Baana son of Hushai in Asher and in Aloth;


• 17 Jehoshaphat son of Paruah in Issachar;


• 18 Shimei son of Ela in Benjamin;


• 19 Geber son of Uri in the land of Gilead, including the territories of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan.
  

There was also one governor in the land of Judah.[fn]