6. and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.
7. Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, who provided for the king and his household; each man had to provide for a month in the year.
8. These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
9. Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;
10. Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh was his and all the land of Hepher);
11. Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);
12. Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah as far as the other side of Jokmeam;
13. Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead were his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);
14. Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
15. Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon);
16. Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
17. Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
18. Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
19. 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 deputy who was in the land.
20. Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance; they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.