列王纪上 4

1King Solomon was now king over all Israel.

2These were his officials:Azariah son of Zadok—the priest;

3Elihoreph and Ahijah sons of Shisha—scribes;Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud—recorder;

4Benaiah son of Jehoiada—over the army;Zadok and Abiathar—priests;

5Azariah son of Nathan—in charge of the prefects;Zabud son of Nathan the priest—companion of the king;

6Ahishar—in charge of the palace; andAdoniram son of Abda—in charge of the forced labor.

7Solomon had twelve prefects governing all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household; each had to provide food for one month in the year.

8And these were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

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

10Ben-hesed in Arubboth—he governed Socho and all the Hepher area;

11Ben-abinadab, [in] all of Naphath-dor (Solomon’s daughter Taphath was his wife);

12Baana 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;

13Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead—he governed the villages of Jair son of Manasseh that are in Gilead, and he also governed the district of Argob that is in Bashan, sixty large towns with walls and bronze bars;

14Ahinadab son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

15Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he too took a daughter of Solomon—Basemath—to wife);

16Baanah son of Hushi, in Asher and Bealoth;

17Jehoshaphat son of Paruah, in Issachar;

18Shimei son of Ela, in Benjamin;

19Geber son of Uri, in the region of Gilead, the country of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan; and one prefect who was in the land.

20Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sands of the sea; they ate and drank and were content.