Solomon’s Senior Officials and His District Prefects

²These were his officials:

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; ⁹Bendeker, in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan; ¹⁰Ben-hesed in Arubboth— he governed Socho and all the Hepher area; ¹¹Benabinadab, [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-me-holah as far as the other side of Jokmeam; ¹³Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead—he governed the villages of Jair son of Manasseh which are in Gilead, and he also governed the district of Argob which 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.