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1 Kings 4:1-12 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

1. And it came to be that Sovereign Shelomoh was sovereign over all Yisra’ĕl.

2. And these were his chief officials: Azaryahu son of Tsaḏoq, the priest;

3. Eliḥoreph and Aḥiyah, sons of Shisha, scribes; Yehoshaphat son of Aḥiluḏ, the recorder;

4. and Benayahu son of Yehoyaḏa, over the army; and Tsaḏoq and Eḇyathar, the priests;

5. and Azaryahu son of Nathan, over the officers; Zaḇuḏ son of Nathan, a priest, friend of the sovereign;

6. and Aḥishar, over the household; and Aḏoniram son of Aḇda, over the compulsory labour.

7. And Shelomoh had twelve governors over all Yisra’ĕl, who provided food for the sovereign and his household – each one made provision for one month of the year –

8. and these were their names: Ben-Ḥur, in the mountains of Ephrayim;

9. Ben-Deqer, in Maqats and Sha‛alḇim and Bĕyth Shemesh and Ělon Bĕyth Ḥanan;

10. Ben-Ḥeseḏ in Arubboth, Soḵoh and all the land of Ḥĕpher were his;

11. Ben-Aḇinaḏaḇ, all the height of Dor, Taphath the daughter of Shelomoh became his wife;

12. Ba‛ana son of Aḥiluḏ, in Ta‛anaḵ and Meg̅iddo, and all Bĕyth She’an, which is beside Tsarethan below Yizre‛ĕl, from Bĕyth She’an to Aḇĕl Meḥolah, as far as the other side of Yoqne‛am;

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